Em23 wrote...
You shouldn't do muscle workouts for longer than 50 mins or you body starts to cannibailse. By gym I don't mean a light cardio jog, I mean work out arms one day, then legs the next day, then abs the day after, then a swim the day after that, maybe some yoga and repeat. AT LEAST 4 times per week, 5-6 is better. Proper, hard work during the full 50 mins. Add an active lifestyle on top and yes, you can do it.
It takes commitment and you have to love it but you can do it.
A healthy diet would include enough protein and protein shakes straight after help too.
All this is easily achievable for someone like femshep.
Most women don't look like this because most women don't try or only do cadio if they do. I go to one of the biggest universities in Australia and I'm nearly always the only girl in the weights room if not the whole gym. This idea that women are naturaly much weaker than men is greatly exaggerated because they mostly dont try.
you are assuming that I don't know what I'm talking about. you don't lift weights several hours in a row, you do high intensity workouts. several times a day. and you mix them up with cardio, all in the same day. protein requirements to build muscle are higher then general maintenance diet for a normal person, even a soldier. body building/competitive fitness and fitness modeling? its highly specialized and a lot more precise then people realize.
as for weakness? you do realize that its not the size that counts, yes? women naturaly have smaller muscle mass because, guess what - we don't produce the same ammount of testasterone that men do, we have more estrogen and progesterone instead. and what's required to build larger looking muscle? yep, you guessed it. its also the reason why healthy body fat percentage for men is much lower then that for women. becasue physiologicaly our bodies serve a bit different function. women being naturaly capably of higher physical flexibility is not an accident. Women tend to be better snipers as well. we have our strengths. they are just not the same as that of men.
when I just started lifting weights, I used to be afraid that I'll get big and ripped like those models in magazines, and being a mesomorph I actualy had more casue for concern then some. I didn't want to be ripped, I just wanted to be toned. I shouldn't have worried. unless you specificaly work towards a goal of looking ripped like that and it requires a lot more effort then what you describe for a woman. you are going to build muscle, and you're going to build strength, but you won't look like a fitness model in a picture.
your workout split is a bit strange. a whole separate day for abs? no chest/back workout at all?
femshep probably
should have larger looking arms. you do enough sparring and punching and you cannot help but end up with slightly bigger shoulders and bigger biceps and triceps, but it won't be anywhere near bodybuilder size and you will only see any sort of definition while its at work and/or deliberately flexed.
look at images of female athletes that aren't models sometimes. professional athletes. look at images of female fighters - the ones that don't use anabolic steroids that is, heck: here's one. does she look like that model? nope. does she look fit? I'd say so.
Modifié par jeweledleah, 07 juin 2011 - 09:40 .
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