Hvy Weight vs Light Weights????

[mercy]

Hi....
If you are looking for a leaner more define look...Do you go with Light weights more rep or does Heavier weight fewer reps do the trick...I have been told that Heavier weights make you look bulkier and that is not the look I want. I have also been told that Heavier weights help you burn the fat around the muscle so that the muscle is more define...
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!!
Mercy

 

[boscoe wilson]

Go heavy or go home.

 

[boscoe wilson]

Jk.

 

[Griz1]

Mercy,

If you have been told "heavier weights make you look bulkier" you have been told wrong (to a certain extent anyway).

Go into a "hardcore gym" and announce that statement out loud. You'll have a whole bunch of guys (and gals) booing and hissing you. And that pain in your head will be a 45lb plate hitting you cause someone whipped it at you.

If going heavy simply made you look bulkier (that easy huh?) I don't think anyone would be BUSTING THEIR ASS trying to put on lean body mass.

Without drugs, if you want to get big and bulky by doing heavy weights, believe me you are in for a very long haul indeed!

Can you tell how tired I am of this idiotic myth? Go Heavy and lose body fat and you will look trim, fit, and cut. Go heavy for a long time (years), eat like a horse, eat clean, then cut down and yes, you will likely look "bulky". Add drugs and it will go alot faster.

Go light and waste your time in the gym...feeding the myth once again... Good exersise in general, but very little gains in any direction.

Sorry if I sound harsh, I don't mean to be.

 

[boscoe wilson]

"Can you tell how tired I am of this idiotic myth? Go Heavy and lose body fat and you will look trim, fit, and cut. Go heavy for a long time (years), eat like a horse, eat clean, then cut down and yes, you will likely look "bulky". Add drugs and it will go alot faster"

This is so true!

 

[mrstamiina]

Don't waste your time if you're going to go lite.

Don't waste my time and everybody elses in the gym that is waiting for the bench you are using, lifting lite.

And don't complain when you get know results after reading these messages and you still lift lite.


I'm sorry but I just got back from the gym and I asked one of the ladies how long she was going to be on the bench? She said " about 20 minutes or so I'm doing 30/30 " Whats that?
"30 reps/ 30 sets, I'm trying to lose weight and get slim."

What a F--kin WASTE OF TIME!

Some woman are so stupid.

 

[lucidblue]

Light weights never did much of anything for me. Heavier has made a huge difference.

 

[boscoe wilson]

Don't waste your time if you're going to go lite.

Don't waste my time and everybody elses in the gym that is waiting for the bench you are using, lifting lite.

And don't complain when you get know results after reading these messages and you still lift lite.


I'm sorry but I just got back from the gym and I asked one of the ladies how long she was going to be on the bench? She said " about 20 minutes or so I'm doing 30/30 " Whats that?
"30 reps/ 30 sets, I'm trying to lose weight and get slim."

What a F--kin WASTE OF TIME!

Some woman are so stupid.

Yesterday I saw a girl dancing with 5lb dumbells in front of one of the freeweight mirrors with headphones on. I workout in a large gym, but it is a tennis club so there is minimal freeweight room...I felt like telling her to do that shit somewhere else, but I'm not rude.

 

[PBR]

I was going to RANT...you guys saved me...thanks...lucid the avatar is nirvana....30 sets of 30...??? I'll get right on that...F^%$#@*&!!!!!!!

 

[boscoe wilson]

My goal is to up my weight by at least 5lbs/week on as many things as possible. Legs are different...I'm able to go up in my press by 10 plus lbs/week...and Squats some weeks too...currently squatting 260 for 3 sets of 8-10, but want to be up to 300 within a month...The only body part that is slow to show strength progress is usually my bi-ceps...I go up like once a month I think.

 

[PBR]

boscoe thats awesome....at the rate you are going with the squats you will easily be at 300# in a month...Biceps are weird, I have the same issue...they truely seem to plateau in terms of max weight used...I can curl 135# for reps maybe 155# for 3 on a good day going downhill with a tailwind...never seems to get any stronger...size will vary, but strength dosent...it is a very small muscle...80# curl is equal to 480 ft lbs. at the point where bicep and forearm meet...dont know my anatomy...radius-flexor???

 

[boscoe wilson]

I agree. My bi's are a little over 13'. I'm just now coming to terms with the fact that they will be losing size this spring when I cut. I hope to at least ad 1/2 inch in the next year. I think that's pretty realistic. As far as my legs...sky's the limit! I swear women are soo lucky when it comes to legs. My husband fights the constant battle to keep his leg size, but mine just grow and grow...I haven't hit a plateau yet with legs and every week I'm amazed...I'm sure the glory will fade someday soon.

 

[FitFossil]

To have definition, you must have muscle to define + low body fat. Can't have one w/o the other.

Think of all those guys (non-steroid using ones) you see pushing really heavy weight...how many of them (or their significant others) think they're "too bulky"? Women's bodies make approximately 1/10th the testosterone (the muscle-building hormone) that men do. Every little bit of muscle we women get, we have to work 10 times harder As long as you avoid steroids, you'll never have to worry about getting too big.

Of course there are always some genetic exceptions who can grow muscle like weeds, and if you happen to be one and see that muscle growing too fast, all you have to do is eat/train less to rein it in.

Usually the trouble with the average woman who thinks she's getting too bulky is that her diet isn't dialed in enough to lose bodyfat. A little new muscle + same old bodyfat = looking bulky. When gaining muscle however, the bodyfat loss may lag behind muscle gains.

Many women give up at this point, but they should just keep on training hard. Given the chance, the new muscle will help them to burn bodyfat, but most get afraid and drastically cut back their training and nutrition before that ever happens. They're still operating under the dieter's mentality rather than the athlete's mentality: eat like an athlete, train like an athlete, look like an athlete.

 

[PBR]

Fit-very well said, good post....need to keep this one up top....

 

[mercy]

Thank you so much! You guys have made my day. My trainor keeps telling me the same thing you guys are saying, but some of my friends trainers have a different way of thinking. I really don't have the knowledge to know which is right. I am trusting my trainor, after all that is why I hired her. I am just glad you guys comfirmed it for me.
Thanks again!
Mercy

 

[wilson6]

The only women that I've seen in the gym that train high rep/light weight and look solid are the ones that are juicing for figure or fitness and don't want the size, just the hardness, fat redistribution and muscle fullness in a dieted down state.

If you're clean and not one of the genetic freaks, in order to get much in the way of benefits from lifting as a female, you almost have to train heavy, otherwise there is little change.

Having said that, there was a recent study that showed that higher rep (30 range) with lighter weight, a pretty much non-stop training routine did decrease bodyfat and increase strength, but most of the muscle fiber recruitment was Type I and there wasn't much muscle mass change. So, if done with adequate intensity I suppose it will have some positive effect, but I certainly wouldn't recommend that style of training if you want to maximize changes in body composition given X amount of time in the gym.

W6