I have a good friend who I will be helping get to the gym consistently. She has a lot of the normal misconceptions about getting “too big” and looking manly, just want to tone etc.
I don’t want to throw a truck load of info at her at once. She will be dedicated, and I’m sure she has the will power to stick with it, but I don’t want her getting overloaded and quitting because I threw too much at her.
I drove the point that consistency and intensity in a workout are more important than finding the “perfect” routine and doing it half-assed.
She already works out with weights, kind of aimlessly, using too light of weights (15+ reps all the time).
Got a good suggestion on where to start? A good article that debunks a lot of myths for women, that doesn’t scare them away too soon???
Thanks for the responses. She’s doing better than I expected already. Really motivated and best of all, she’s smart enough and open minded enough to see why the myths she was believing were wrong.
And Cal, I will suggest the lube, and hope she goes for it. If I get slapped, I’m blaming you though.
Heh heh, sorry, couldn’t resist!
Stumptuous is a great site, though - worth checking out the training articles (such as “mistressing the pull-up”) and so forth.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Heh heh, sorry, couldn’t resist!
Stumptuous is a great site, though - worth checking out the training articles (such as “mistressing the pull-up”) and so forth.[/quote]
It’s an awesome site and the one I most often referred to when I was teaching myself to squat etc.
Your first response though was what immediately went through my mind
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Heh heh, sorry, couldn’t resist!
Stumptuous is a great site, though - worth checking out the training articles (such as “mistressing the pull-up”) and so forth.[/quote]
kinda hate to say it but some of the crossfit instructional vids can be helpful, too. for showing athletic, strong, non-scary women doing cool stuff with decent weights. guess that was an in-between step from starting strength and olympic weightlifting for me. takes a while to develop an aesthetic appreciation for superheavyweights
I guess it is true that most chicks would show greater appreciation for some hot crossfit chick high repping ugly clean and jerks than for a superheavyweight lift a crapload of weight with close to technical perfection for one rep.
[quote]alexus wrote:
stumptuous got me started, too.
then i found ‘starting strength’ (one whole chapter on squatting? yeah!!!)
there are pics of a girl in there…
then i found this:
and decided i wanted to do that more than most things.[/quote]
thanks for posting that. It was hypnotic and wonderful to watch. It makes me want to learn Olympic lifting.