sonny4753
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Hey everyone, I have a friend (wow how many threads start this way) lol, and she is 31. She started lifting about 1.5 years ago, before then always been a "cardio girl."
She splits her legs into 2 workouts a week: quads/glutes then on the other day hams/glutes
Upper body she usually does all in one day, incline bench, dead lift, pull ups, skull crushers/dips and push ups, front and side dbell raises.
BTW so she started to lean out nicely right, and one day all of us were talking at the gym and she says "I'm never doing shoulders again, look I'm geting huge!" Uh I told her no your not, you are just shedding the fat off of your shoulders, you can't GET huge, you are a female. Anyway, Question #1: are there any good articles with scientific information regarding that women can't get huge? (She's a scientist and a director of an engineering group, so she likes documented proof. LOL)
The other days are cardio/ab work. I did her body fat for her when she basically started and she was:
5'4 137 at about 25% +/- .5% bf, now she 5'4 128/29 at 17.5% +/- .5%
She's blessed with vascularity and very good skin (olive toned as well), her glutes are tiny, and the majority of her backside is well "flesh" I guess. This is her complaint to me, it's just not "filling" in. I told her it takes time. She's pretty fortunate with her body, she's getting a very lean look, just her back side is flabby I guess.
Anyway, she came to me asking about running an anti-cort aka Lean Xtreme for 3-4 weeks during a carb cycling period with increased workouts.
I said I know what this does for me, but I'm not sure of the interactions with women, so I told her I'd ask on the forum and see what people say. This is NOT my gf, and I am simply trying to get information for a friend of mine.
Question #2 (main questions I guess): anyone have any ideas if this is a bad thing or not?
I mean she's making great progress but I guess she just is not happy with the back side being so "squishy" - that's the term she used not mine. In addition I've seen her lift (she has had a trainer show her form) and it's impressive; her squats, walking barbell lunges, deads, Romainian DLs look great. I told her building this stuff takes time.
She understood that, but wants to try a cut type of cycle, and tighten up her legs, which I have to admit have some really impressive muscle on them when she wears shorts. Just that I guess what her complaint is the upper body is leaning out nice but her legs are lagging behind on the leaning out part. You can see the muscle, but the legs are still "jiggly" make sense?
Question #3: Are there any articles on the science of how many inches you can build a year, or put on in a year? Or how many workouts = x amount of inches (in a perfect scenario)? I saw a pdf floating around here at some point but doing a search on "muscle building" yieds a large volume of search stuff.
She splits her legs into 2 workouts a week: quads/glutes then on the other day hams/glutes
Upper body she usually does all in one day, incline bench, dead lift, pull ups, skull crushers/dips and push ups, front and side dbell raises.
BTW so she started to lean out nicely right, and one day all of us were talking at the gym and she says "I'm never doing shoulders again, look I'm geting huge!" Uh I told her no your not, you are just shedding the fat off of your shoulders, you can't GET huge, you are a female. Anyway, Question #1: are there any good articles with scientific information regarding that women can't get huge? (She's a scientist and a director of an engineering group, so she likes documented proof. LOL)
The other days are cardio/ab work. I did her body fat for her when she basically started and she was:
5'4 137 at about 25% +/- .5% bf, now she 5'4 128/29 at 17.5% +/- .5%
She's blessed with vascularity and very good skin (olive toned as well), her glutes are tiny, and the majority of her backside is well "flesh" I guess. This is her complaint to me, it's just not "filling" in. I told her it takes time. She's pretty fortunate with her body, she's getting a very lean look, just her back side is flabby I guess.
Anyway, she came to me asking about running an anti-cort aka Lean Xtreme for 3-4 weeks during a carb cycling period with increased workouts.
I said I know what this does for me, but I'm not sure of the interactions with women, so I told her I'd ask on the forum and see what people say. This is NOT my gf, and I am simply trying to get information for a friend of mine.
Question #2 (main questions I guess): anyone have any ideas if this is a bad thing or not?
I mean she's making great progress but I guess she just is not happy with the back side being so "squishy" - that's the term she used not mine. In addition I've seen her lift (she has had a trainer show her form) and it's impressive; her squats, walking barbell lunges, deads, Romainian DLs look great. I told her building this stuff takes time.
She understood that, but wants to try a cut type of cycle, and tighten up her legs, which I have to admit have some really impressive muscle on them when she wears shorts. Just that I guess what her complaint is the upper body is leaning out nice but her legs are lagging behind on the leaning out part. You can see the muscle, but the legs are still "jiggly" make sense?
Question #3: Are there any articles on the science of how many inches you can build a year, or put on in a year? Or how many workouts = x amount of inches (in a perfect scenario)? I saw a pdf floating around here at some point but doing a search on "muscle building" yieds a large volume of search stuff.