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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I started lifting heavy during quarantine. Before that, I was primarily doing pilates, yoga, HIIT (Barry's) and spin. I enjoy some aspects of it, and I think it's much easier than my HIIT routine so it's easier to convince myself to actually get up and do it. The negative is that I started bulking up much more than I wanted to, so I've abandoned it and gone back to pilates. My shoulders got broader and my thighs and rear got bigger, which I wasn't a fan of. My stomach stayed flat, but building up core muscles also made me somewhat thick in the waist. I started quarantine as a size 0/2 and over the course of about 2.5 years got up to a size 6, so I decided to quit weights and go back to my old routine. [/quote]

Have you considered that you got bigger because of added weight as opposed to the weightlifting?  If you're replacing HIIT workouts with just weights then you're doing less cardio.  I'm assuming you didn't give up spin or any of the other non-weights workouts?

I've lifted heavy since my late 20s (mid-40s now) and I do tend to show muscle really fast and can bulk up, but even when I've lived way heavier than I do now, my weight stayed the same.  I'm also a size 0 and at most, I'll go up to sz 2 for example if my shoulders/arms were broader or my thighs/butt got bigger from muscle.  But any size bigger than that would be from weight gain.  
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10:21 again. My waist got thicker from building up my obliques and my back muscles, for the most part. I always had decent ab definition, but going from a 4-pack to an 8-pack (after my diet while still lifting) didn’t make my abs any bigger.

I'm the 11:34 PP, who also bulks up from heavy lifting (even when I'm also doing cardio) - even if what you suggest happened, i.e., doing less cardio, theoretically the added muscle mass should increase BMR, right?  I mean, that's what everyone considers the magic of heavy lifting: build muscle, increase your resting metabolism and presto, you're a fat burning machine.

As a woman who bulks up fairly easily with heavy lifting, I'm so tired of being told that can't happen to women.  It can.  [/quote]
Adding muscle mass when you are lean absolutely required a calorie surplus, and the added mass is never all muscle.  For young people with very high testosterone, the percentage of muscle can be high, but for everybody else it’s much closer to 50/50 at best.  That’s why body builders run bulk cut cycles.

Personally, I went from squatting 115 to squatting 295 over the course of a couple years, and my butt got much bigger but my waist shrank.  I had visible abs and everything was tighter, so my waist measured smaller. I’ve never heard of anyone’s waist getting larger except as a result of added fat during a bulk. [/quote][/quote]

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