Lifting Heavy - I don't seem to be getting the results I want - Help

[Anonymous]

To sum up, OP used to do cardio that burns calories. She stopped that and started lifting but seems to be eating the same amount of calories. Hence she will gain weight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To sum up, OP used to do cardio that burns calories. She stopped that and started lifting but seems to be eating the same amount of calories. Hence she will gain weight.

Weightlifting burns calories too.

[Anonymous]

I would try Pilates or Pilates plus cardio. If it’s not working for you, what’s the point? I think there are different kinds of bodies and they respond differently to types of exercise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To sum up, OP used to do cardio that burns calories. She stopped that and started lifting but seems to be eating the same amount of calories. Hence she will gain weight.

Weightlifting burns calories too.

Not as many as cardio.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What program are you doing? As a beginner, you should be getting stronger every week in the beginning, and then at least bi-weekly or monthly after a few months.

I think your trainer sucks.

Not really - muscle for a 50 year old female needs the diet to enable building muscle.

Women are not genetically predisposed for muscle development at this age. Your body needs the proper fuel with training.

false. anyone with a competent trainer should be seeing increases in strength quickly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What program are you doing? As a beginner, you should be getting stronger every week in the beginning, and then at least bi-weekly or monthly after a few months.

I think your trainer sucks.

Not really - muscle for a 50 year old female needs the diet to enable building muscle.

Women are not genetically predisposed for muscle development at this age. Your body needs the proper fuel with training.

false. anyone with a competent trainer should be seeing increases in strength quickly.

Strength and gains in terms of muscle mass are not the same thing. You will get stronger well before you see muscle hypertrophy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, creatine does not lead to hair loss or baldness. To people even bother to do basic research before repeating dumbness?

In summary, the current body of evidence does not indicate that creatine supplementation increases total testosterone, free testosterone, DHT or causes hair loss/baldness.
https://www.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871530/

LOL. Talk to my DS who stopped taking it due to hair loss.

I have been taking it daily for years. Still have all my hair

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, creatine does not lead to hair loss or baldness. To people even bother to do basic research before repeating dumbness?

In summary, the current body of evidence does not indicate that creatine supplementation increases total testosterone, free testosterone, DHT or causes hair loss/baldness.
https://www.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871530/

LOL. Talk to my DS who stopped taking it due to hair loss.

I have been taking it daily for years. Still have all my hair

You are not a man who has a lot of testosterone as is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would try Pilates or Pilates plus cardio. If it’s not working for you, what’s the point? I think there are different kinds of bodies and they respond differently to types of exercise.

Agree. I got excellent results from pilates and barre, and that was after a couple of years of lifting heavy things with a personal trainer. Not that the latter wasn't working at all, but I was constantly pulling muscles and feeling strain in my back. Someone suggested I try barre, and it was a game changer. I gained a lot of core strength and improved my flexibility significantly, and maybe that made the difference? It could also be that I was much better able to make the mind-muscle connection work for me in that setting.

[Anonymous]

If your burn boot camp is more HIIT than true heavy lifting, drop that class and start doing weights in your own or an app. You are fit enough to squat (2) 25 pound dumbbells for 3 sets. That’s just a start. If your class isn’t doing that, you’re in the wrong class.

[Anonymous]

OP, how much can you squat, deadlift, and bench?

Can you perform full pull-ups, chin-ups, and push-ups? How many in a row?

If the answers to these questions are not ones you have, I submit to you that the kind of weight training you are doing is really likely to be inadequate for meaningful muscle gain.

It’s true that a lot of the first year of any real weight program is neurological. So if you say something like “I squat 85 lbs, deadlift 129 and bench 50”—just keep adding incrementally. But if you are doing a kind of class where you are flinging around smaller weights or “body bars” and doing push-ups from your knees only—you’re in the wrong place for what you’re trying to get done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, creatine does not lead to hair loss or baldness. To people even bother to do basic research before repeating dumbness?

In summary, the current body of evidence does not indicate that creatine supplementation increases total testosterone, free testosterone, DHT or causes hair loss/baldness.
https://www.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871530/

LOL. Talk to my DS who stopped taking it due to hair loss.

I have been taking it daily for years. Still have all my hair

You are not a man who has a lot of testosterone as is.

Hair loss? Testosterone impact? Yeah, creatine has no role in any of those.

Anecdotally- sure. My cousin knows someone who took protein powder and got hit by a bus two days later.

Protein = unsurvivable bus injury.

Not very scientific. Keep reaching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, creatine does not lead to hair loss or baldness. To people even bother to do basic research before repeating dumbness?

In summary, the current body of evidence does not indicate that creatine supplementation increases total testosterone, free testosterone, DHT or causes hair loss/baldness.
https://www.ncbi.nl
m.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7871530/

LOL. Talk to my DS who stopped taking it due to hair loss.

I have been taking it daily for years. Still have all my hair

You are not a man who has a lot of testosterone as is.

Hair loss? Testosterone impact? Yeah, creatine has no role in any of those.

Anecdotally- sure. My cousin knows someone who took protein powder and got hit by a bus two days later.

Protein = unsurvivable bus injury.

Not very scientific. Keep reaching.

If taking creatine resulted in increased testosterone
1) it would cost 100x as much and be 1000x more widely used
2) it would be banned for any athlete as prohibited substance (been approved since 2000 - hell, even the fda approved it which they rarely do for supplements)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What program are you doing? As a beginner, you should be getting stronger every week in the beginning, and then at least bi-weekly or monthly after a few months.

I think your trainer sucks.

Not really - muscle for a 50 year old female needs the diet to enable building muscle.

Women are not genetically predisposed for muscle development at this age. Your body needs the proper fuel with training.

false. anyone with a competent trainer should be seeing increases in strength quickly.

Strength and gains in terms of muscle mass are not the same thing. You will get stronger well before you see muscle hypertrophy.

Strength is the one people benefit from - protect the joints enable mobility and live pain free.
Hypertrophy is for vanity do we need it in mid-age?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your burn boot camp is more HIIT than true heavy lifting, drop that class and start doing weights in your own or an app. You are fit enough to squat (2) 25 pound dumbbells for 3 sets. That’s just a start. If your class isn’t doing that, you’re in the wrong class.

I have never that heavy, 25 strains my wrist joints too much.

Single leg squat with 30lb (15 each side) or iso for 20 sec one each side is just effective for strength gain.