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1. She said she also changed her nutrition. This alone can explain her weight loss and it would have happened anyway regardless of if she lifted weights or not.
2. She is fat. Of course she can build strength and muscle for a while. It's because her default caloric consumption (even if she started on a cut) is high enough to support it. But in the long term as she cuts her calories further and loses more weight she will stagnate and won't be able to gain more strength and muscle without increasing her calories again.
No lean woman who isn't abusing steroids is going to be lifting any respectable amount of weight. This makes the whole plan of lifting to lose weight a completely laughable plan for women, because in order to get the calorie burning muscle mass (which won't even burn that many calories anyway) they would have to get fat anyway. In fact, I would argue that this entire idea is actually just kinda dumb for everybody.
Just lol at women who actually do this thinking it's the secret to leanness. Just lol.
EDIT: Some of the posters are saying I am mocking women who want to improve themselves. This is untrue. I am making fun of the people who call for this exact method of weight loss and am pointing out that it makes no sense.
Again with you telling people not to exercise. These posts of yours are becoming very tiresome and insulting.
First what is "respectable amount of weight?" Why should what a man lifts be "respectable" and what woman lifts "not respectable?" Men and women usually have different goals with weight training. Men often do this to get stronger, bulk up and be muscular. Women tend to do it to get stronger, be toned (not big and muscular) and to change fat/muscle ratio. Most women who know enough about weights know it is not going to bulk them up. If they do not know they ask "will it make me big?" and then the trainer or a CREDIBLE source on the internet and not some random guy with an opinion explains it to them.
Second you do not understand women's bodies. It is an EXCELLENT idea for women to lift weights because weight-bearing exercises help to increase bone mass and help them avoid osteoporosis.
My experience has been similar, although for me weight loss/gain is driven by food consumption/constraint to a much greater extent than exercise.
Same here, but exercise gives me additional motivation to stay away from the refrigerator. It helps control my appetite, and then there's the notion of why ruin all the progress I'm making by making poor food choices?
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I did mostly cardio for years, and it wasn't until I added strength training to my regimen that I noticed changes in my body. Arms and legs more toned, abs stronger, etc. I have no aims to be a bodybuilder or weightlifter, but the effect was undeniable. And, no, it did not cause me to gain weight - as I stated before, that is a food issue.
Absolutely! Esthetic effects aside, too, strength training has made me stronger and given me more stamina when doing marathon yard work sessions, hauling heavy pieces of furniture up and down the stairs, etc. I'd recommend it to anyone.
I didn't gain weight, either. What a silly notion.
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Btw OP, even if you are/were correct in your assertion, your disdainful tone does not exactly inspire people to take you seriously.
The OP hates women, overweight women especially. Read some of his posts, if you can stomach it.
lelz at all the guys here recommending strength training to women as a means to lose weight. The argument here basically is that lifting weights burns extra calories and that the additional muscle mass will increase metabolism or some nonsense.
Ok, for starters the myth about extra muscle burning more calories isn't even that true. Even a male who works out for years and build muscle won't be able to eat more than perhaps 700-800 calories more than he did years prior AT MOST (just lol at all the fat dudes eating 4000+ calories a day thinking their lard is muscle).
I would suggest researching this topic and perhaps reading a book or two written by successful weight trainers before posting nonsense like you have above.
Seriously... Working out with weights will make women fat, will it?
I think false information deserves to be refuted, and so,
Mayo Clinic:
Want to reduce body fat, increase lean muscle mass and burn calories more efficiently? Strength training to the rescue! Strength training is a key component of overall health and fitness for everyone.
LOL at your threads, OP. You never disappoint me. Its not so much you're completely wrong in a lot of your threads (because there's some truths) but its how you deliver it.
Everyone here pretty much knows strength training wont make anyone fat; only their diet can do that.
Everyone here pretty much knows strength training wont make anyone fat; only their diet can do that.
DIET IS A PART OF STRENGTH TRAINING!!!
You need to eat more in order to get stronger. How are you planning on lifting more weight if you don't eat more food? No caloric surplus=no strength or muscle gain.
You need to eat more in order to get stronger. How are you planning on lifting more weight if you don't eat more food? No caloric surplus=no strength or muscle gain.
If a person desires to lose weight, he's already carrying his caloric surplus with him.
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