Ladies Help Me!!!!

[Ramcononer]

My girl recently started lifting. She is not carrying too much bf and does cardio 25 mins 3-4days a week and is dieting to cut down. She is eating 6 meals a day
which consists of fish, chicken, broc, beans, anpb and yougurt. the diet is clean
and I think she said its about 1800cals on fitday.
My question is when she lift she doesn't understand why she has to do chest and back. She says she only wants to improve her legs and arms. What can I tell her to justify the benefits of a total body workout and do any of you ladies have a workout you can suggest. She has good genetics in the fact that her father was a competition lifter and she is naturally lean.
thanks ladies?

 

[velvett]

copied to the women's forum

 

[ck2006]

My girl recently started lifting. She is not carrying too much bf and does cardio 25 mins 3-4days a week and is dieting to cut down. She is eating 6 meals a day
which consists of fish, chicken, broc, beans, anpb and yougurt. the diet is clean
and I think she said its about 1800cals on fitday.
My question is when she lift she doesn't understand why she has to do chest and back. She says she only wants to improve her legs and arms. What can I tell her to justify the benefits of a total body workout and do any of you ladies have a workout you can suggest. She has good genetics in the fact that her father was a competition lifter and she is naturally lean.
thanks ladies?

Maybe try telling her that overall strength will be a benefit, and porportioning???

 

[Sassy69]

Why create an imbalance in your body? Not to mention all your parts are joined together - nothing operates in pure isolation. Also training is not just "building the selected muscle" - but also fat burning, building your core strength and also to generate a balance across your body so that a focus on just one part doesn't result in it overpowering another part - just functionally speaking - all sorts of knee problems can result if you have an imbalance between your ham strength & your quad strength.

Also your "core" refers to essentially your torso strength (no its not completely accurate but you're talking about the trunk of your body) - your abs, your back, your ability sit strong & upright and hold good form when you are executing targeted muscle groups.

Also generally speaking "training" is an ongoing, constantly changing progression - you never just follow the same routine all the time forever & forever - change is what stimulates progress. Staying constant just leads to conditinoed for that particular training target and then stagnates once the adaption is made.

I just personally think it is extremely short-sighted and limiting to say you only want to do selected parts - you can focus on particular parts but to ignore other parts I find to be incomplete and the lack of balance can introduce opportunity for imbalance that the body requires to avoid injury.

 

[Ramcononer]

Sassy you Rule. That is exactly what Ill tell her.

 

[Sassy69]

Fitness isn't a destination - its a journey - whatever look you want is usually relative to how you look now -- but we usually focus on our flaws and overlook the other shades of what could be better - but if you selective ignore parts of your physique the whole thing can get thrown out of whack. I'd always suggest establish a good maintenance baseline & then add focus from there.