training

[jenny27]

just curious...how long has everyone been training for?

 

[muskles]

started learning 2 years.. only really got going within the last year, though. it's amazing how fast you can learn when hanging around here, though

 

[CAROLINACHICK]

Only 3 yrs. I was out for a little while due to a minor surgery. Been back now for about 2 weeks.

 

[Lady Viking]

About 10 years, but only last seven months I have known what I´m doing... Sometimes I hope I would have found this board earlier

 

[JLo]

Since April of 98.... so, 4 years.

 

[FitFossil]

It depends on what you mean by training. I've been a rider (equestrian) since I was 6. Competed natl level many years. My riding coach during college got me interested in weight training (was a very novel idea back in the 80's - both for women to lift weights or for riders to do any kind of cross-training).

Weight trained off and on for years, but never did the heavy stuff "because women weren't supposed to" With my eating disorder, everything I did was geared to making myself smaller anyway. As I hit my 30's I started putting on fat (partly due to birth control pill and age), so I changed my training focus to make myself STRONG instead of just small & weak.

I've been doing that a little over 2 years. I got strong and lean, but not "big" (except compared to an anorexic maybe ). This training is the best thing I've done for myself.

 

[takniteasy]

11 years minus 6 months or so for recovery after surgery.

 

[jenny27]

about how long did it take you ladies to become lean/cut since youy started?

cuz when i look around i think this, this is good enough and i try to laugh at whatever life brings cuz when i look down i just miss all the good stuff, when i look up i just trip over things ~as is

 

[superscrawn]

Hey a question I am actually answer! I have only been pumping iron 11 months. I have always been lean and cut, that's part of what I have been trying to change with the iron. Hell, you could see all my abs when I was 12! I dont think I have been over 13% bf since like the 5th grade. Everyone used to say I looked sickly. "Are you feedin' that girl??"

I trying to bulk up bigtime. Are you trying to rip up?

 

[magdelana]

Aaah, spatts had a washboard in kindergarten! You should have been a boxer with ab plates like that.

Jenny i started training with wieghts 16 years ago this month.

I think that your fitness goals are different then mine since you ask about how long to be ripped. I have never been really ripped (only below 16% bf once and only for maybe a month). I like having some flesh