Comments on: Myths about Womens Weightlifting, Part 1

By: El

El — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:38:31 +0000

Thanks for your thoughts. I actually wish I’d gotten the chance to do this when I was younger, b/c I’m sure I’d've been working away in the weight room (which = football player room), b/c I really love it! When I was in jh/hs, girls didn’t do lifting, girls did rhythmic gymnastics, not wrestling, and etc. We didn’t touch the weight room. At least I’m having fun now!!

If this pops up more than once, sorry — I’m not sure what’s up (my technological skills are sorely lacking).

By: El

El — Sat, 07 May 2011 16:37:38 +0000

By: Nick Horton

Nick Horton — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:22:25 +0000

We all have different genetics that will make certain body parts stand out more than others. At 5’2”, I’m guessing that you also have relatively short limbs. Shorter armed people often will feel like their arms appear larger relative to their body.

Lets say we had two women, both the same height, but one has short arms for her body and the other has long arms for her body. The actual circumference of their arms could be identical, but the woman with shorter arms will APPEAR to have larger arms because the ratio of the circumference of her upper arms to the length of her arms is smaller than the woman with long arms.

This could be happening with you, I don’t know.

Now, of course, there ARE some women who really can build rather large muscles without even trying! They are crazy rare, and usually already know this and ended up running sprints in college or had some other sports scholarship. Natural born athletes are lucky people!

By: El

El — Tue, 03 May 2011 12:33:53 +0000

So I seem to be one of the (few?) women who do get a bit larger when weight training. Not that large, of course(!), but at first, when I started losing weight, my upper arm got a bit smaller. After that, other parts of me (my waist, hips, thighs…) got smaller, but my upper arm stayed about the same. They’re actually getting kinda jacked. Now, I like this (!), but I will say it’s problematic for clothing b/c while my shirt size in other areas has gotten smaller, when I try on shirts that fit everywhere else, they are too small for my arms (which is partly why I feel like my arms get larger). I guess technically they’re not getting larger, they’re staying the same and therefore larger in proportion to the rest of me. Thoughts on why this might be? I don’t actually want to change it, I’m just curious… FYI, I have shorter limbs, and am more on the rounder side than others. I’m now 5’2″ and about 120.

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By: saij

saij — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:10:54 +0000

Yep, Front squats are squats that you hold in front. Check out this video:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=gFtM8czccJk

Sometimes it takes some getting used to with the wrist flexibility, but it’s friendlier to the lower back.

By: krislinatin

krislinatin — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:27:36 +0000

thanks for getting back to me,
i could be doing better with the stretching, but do all the things you suggested.
I have never heard the going below parallel for the squats, very interesting, will try that next time.
Just one more question, what are front squats? holding the weights in front?
thanks, Kristina