My wife (and a lot of her friends) are obsessed with Zumba. Classes are everywhere and most of the gaming consoles have different themes.
That is the point I was trying to make. Not necessarily calling out GTE's girl, but tons of girls think its either run on the treadmill and do a leg abductor or two or become some grotesque body building chick without any in between. Basically reveal to her that if she squats, she's gonna have much better legs than girls doing Zumba and maybe it will resonate.
I'm going to start a squat club for women. The reason Zumba works is because it's fun and burns calories. I'm sure there are hundreds of workouts that could tone you better than salsa dancing.
I think his point, though, is that she does not enjoy lifting weights. Does she not enjoy it because she doesn't like putting a ton of effort into her exercise (i.e. she PREFERS to walk on the treadmill and chat), because she's scared of the weight/being judged, does she have injuries? If we know why she doesn't like lifting heavy, it might help. A persuasive tool for you to convince her otherwise is that she can spend less than 20 minutes, 3x per week and get a better body than running on the treadmill for two hours per day. Sadly, the chick who used to host Bodyrock broke up with the guy who filmed Bodyrock. BR still has good 12 minute, self-weight workouts but you can also Youtube "Zuzana Light" and find her new stuff. Personally, I prefer Zuzana. Everything she says/teaches is awesome.
My neck/shoulders/upper arms are fucked. Years of terrible posture and working on computers in ergonomically unsound positions and shit. I'm seeing an Osteopath and have seen physios/orthopedic surgeons and a bunch of other people trying to fix it. It's currently at a fucked stage. So at the Osteopath's advice, I added regular but light weight shit like seated push downs and preacher curls into my routines. I do even lighter sets the day after for repeated bout effect to try and managed DOMS/post work set pain. There is NOTHING more humiliating than doing 10 pound preacher curls while people judge you.
Physically impossible for a woman to 'get all buff' without dedicating her life to doing so...while taking some pretty incredible supplements at the same time. Show your girl pics of Marsha from Strong is the New Skinny, or Camille LaBlanc (I think her name is). They're uber slim but they're strong. That may help change her perception of what a strong female looks like. It's a definite probability that she's intimidated at the idea of lifting heavy, or lifting at all. It's not a 'feminine' thing to do, and it's also easy to get lost in it, especially with the exercise information women are fed by magazines these days. You may try finding her a CrossFit gym, or a pole dance class. Don't get her into pole dance thinking you'll get anything out of it though, because if she loves it, it'll become a sport to her, not anything sexual. I don't know. This fight is hard for me because I know where the preconceived notions come from, but dispelling them is like yanking teeth.
Is she afraid of getting muscle-y? I thought she didn't like lifting heavy...that isn't necessarily the same thing.
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So forcing a gallon of water down my gullet a day and pissing every half hour isn't doing me any good? No, joke, I thought it was said on this thread or the old board that you should try and drink an ounce of water for every lbs you weigh. Pissing clear meant your properly hydrated and helps digestion, etc. The pissing every half hour is by far the worst part. Ive found that drinking around 90-100 oz lets me not have the pressure on my blatter every 15-20 minutes. A gallon plus and I might as well live in the bathroom.
I've never heard that before. That would mean I have to drink almost 2 gallons of water a day! You might be getting that confused with the recommendation of takin in 1g of protein for every kg of bodyweight for gaining muscle mass. Drinking more water is necessary for athletes to help keep you operating at an optimal level and helping to flush all of the bad stuff out of your system.
The recommendation is .5 ounces of water per pound of body weight. I think it is a pretty good rule of thumb (although I probably drink more than that). And you actually shouldn't be peeing every 30 minutes if you are drinking a gallon of water per day. Every couple of hours, sure, but not every 30 minutes.
I figured 2 gallons would be nothing for guys your size after eating an entire charred cow a day. I may have misread it on the old board. I could see where drinking a full gallon for someone my size (who under mya's suggestion should only be drinking 85 oz) could lead to frequent bathroom breaks. As much coffee as I drink things start to add up. God knows I ain't giving that up.
So I started working in kettlebells to my routine and I'm loving it so far. I'm getting to the point where its still not easy but easier. I've seen a few disagreements and a mish mash of youtube videos that confuse the piss out of me in regard to good circuit routines or anything other than just the swing. Anyone have any nuggets of cannon ball hurling wisdom to share?
She does not enjoy weights. At all. I got her to try bench press with just the bar. She did one rep and that was that. Done. Didn't like it. She'll do CrossFit with me (my gym has a CF class but its nothing like a REAL CF gym.) and sweat/work her ass off so I don't think its that she doesn't want to work at it. I think using the term "get all buff" was the wrong one. She could NEVER look buff with her body type no matter how much she lifted. What I guess I meant was she has no desire to look like Camille LaBlanc. She's 35, thinks she has a muffin top and wants to lose it. Like we've PM'd before, CF gyms out here are $200+ a month (not in the budget) and she wouldn't want to do deads, oly lifts, flip tires etc anyways. She would love to look like this: Spoiler
Hit a 255 clean and press with only chalk and wrist wraps. Woot. Of course I felt like a douchebag when I let it go since we don't have bumper plates. I try to minimize the impact by not just dropping it, but I'm going to hurt myself if I try to bring it down gently. Also apparently a Snickers bar isn't a good intra-workout snack. Whatever. The bad news is that I know Im going to have to switch to a hook grip if I want to climb up in weight any further, and I haven't worked on that in ages.
Do you have an RKC (Russian Kettlebell Certified) instructor that you are working with or at least can ask questions? I know there are a ton of youtube clips, but it's best to have somebody in person checking your form. This is especially necessary if you start adding things like Turkish Get-ups and snatches to your routine. I mean they can even give tips on how to save your forearms from taking a beating during snatches. Ha and in going just to find a name my friend Delaine (an RKC) apparently just posted about this yesterday: <a class="postlink" href="http://delaineross.blogspot.com/2012/04/program-design-for-general-physical.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://delaineross.blogspot.com/2012/04 ... sical.html</a> I know she has a ton of respect for David Whitley and most lifters already know Dan John.
So far the intense microcycle of Smolov isn't as hard as the Base Mesocycle. I think it just hits me harder mentally when I see something like 10 sets of 3 of a certain weight, where as in the intense microcycle you change the weights so it doesn't seem as difficult. Go figure. I know it's still going to kill me though. Right now my split goes: Monday: Squats Tuesday: OHP/tricep work (I'm not benching at all so I'm trying to build the muscles directly associated with it) Wednesday: Squats Thursday: Pulling (mostly focusing on upper back work) Friday: Accessory work (mobility, reverse hypers and such) Saturday: Squats Sunday: OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM