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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.

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false. anyone with a competent trainer should be seeing increases in strength quickly. [/quote]

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

Why would any 50+ woman have “muscle hypertrophy” as a fitness goal? Also strength training absolutely increases muscle mass in the elderly: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3117172/
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NP.  A woman who wants to gain and see increased muscle mass -like the OP, like me - would aim for hypertrophy.  Is this a serious question?

OP is not even 50 yet. Are the poster who keep posting articles about people in different decades. I’m not in my 60s, I don’t need to consider your article about the elderly.

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Maybe you mean something else by “hypertrophy.” Women including older women absolutely build muscle mass through normal strength training. But probably not bulging “defined” muscles without the genetic tendency towards that and/or a lot more specialized training.

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/training-performance/women-strength-training-research/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37005493/

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