Anonymous wrote:Anyone have ways to look stro:k\ng if you don’t have a home gym? Like body weight moves?

Anonymous wrote:Saw this article today and thought it was inspiring (before and after photos if someone else knows how to post pics)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/fitness/article-12338199/america-weight-loss-denise-kirtley-fitness-tips-california-diet-hacks.html

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 year..

There are not fast ways. You need to put in the work..

Of course you plateau. Then it takes even harder work. You can't poo poo around for 3 weeks an expect results. only after 16-18 weeks can you barely see results..after 1 year you start to get strong. After 2 really, really strong.

This is a crazy crazy generalization. I have an athletic build. I build muscles very very easily. I can do push ups for 3 weeks and my arms start to look sculpted. It takes me no time to start showing muscle. I don’t even have to work out hard for it at all.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 year..

There are not fast ways. You need to put in the work..

Of course you plateau. Then it takes even harder work. You can't poo poo around for 3 weeks an expect results. only after 16-18 weeks can you barely see results..after 1 year you start to get strong. After 2 really, really strong.

This is a crazy crazy generalization. I have an athletic build. I build muscles very very easily. I can do push ups for 3 weeks and my arms start to look sculpted. It takes me no time to start showing muscle. I don’t even have to work out hard for it at all.

Anonymous wrote:1 year..

There are not fast ways. You need to put in the work..

Of course you plateau. Then it takes even harder work. You can't poo poo around for 3 weeks an expect results. only after 16-18 weeks can you barely see results..after 1 year you start to get strong. After 2 really, really strong.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For me it was about a month. I wish we could post pics here. When covid started I quit running because the trails were so crowded and gyms were closed and everyone on the trails were so stressed about breathing near one another (remember that?!?). One day I decided to give online yoga a try, this was in February. By early March my body was totally transformed. My arms, shoulders and back are toned so shockingly nicely that now I wear short sleeves and tanks all the time. Give yoga a try, I did Core Power which includes small hand weights inn some of the classes, but even without weights you'll notice a difference if you're anything like me. Even my leg muscles are way more defined than they were when I was a runner (pretty good runner at that, my PR in the marathon was 3:09).

Yup. You will see results in as early as a month.

If you are looking for a complete and total body transformation, then sure, a year.

But you will see a difference early, and it will motivate you to keep going. It’s quite exciting to see the progress.

My only warning is don’t stop because it goes away and it goes away fast.

Anonymous wrote:Look there’s people on this board who claim you can see differences in a week or two. You cannot. To BUILD MUSCLE to the point you actually look strong and incredibly defined is at least a year. I have been diligently lifting weights and progressively increasing the difficulty of my workout routine since I turned 30, I just turned 38, and it is a process of growth each year. Each year there is more and more definition or an increase in strength. I am sure I noticed small differences a couple months in, and it was probably clear to others that I routinely worked out at the one year mark, but the kind of “what do you do to get your arms to look like that” comments I get from even men - that took years of work.

Anonymous wrote:It’s two things: lifting weights AND losing fat to see the muscle. Strong and fat just looks big.

Anonymous wrote:For me it was about a month. I wish we could post pics here. When covid started I quit running because the trails were so crowded and gyms were closed and everyone on the trails were so stressed about breathing near one another (remember that?!?). One day I decided to give online yoga a try, this was in February. By early March my body was totally transformed. My arms, shoulders and back are toned so shockingly nicely that now I wear short sleeves and tanks all the time. Give yoga a try, I did Core Power which includes small hand weights inn some of the classes, but even without weights you'll notice a difference if you're anything like me. Even my leg muscles are way more defined than they were when I was a runner (pretty good runner at that, my PR in the marathon was 3:09).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1 year..

There are not fast ways. You need to put in the work..

Of course you plateau. Then it takes even harder work. You can't poo poo around for 3 weeks an expect results. only after 16-18 weeks can you barely see results..after 1 year you start to get strong. After 2 really, really strong.

This is extreme. 1 year is a really long time, and a timeline I have not personally experienced - I'm a woman over 50. We're all genetically different, and there are way too many variables involved to give a reliable answer. If your diet is in check, if you're getting good sleep, and if you're lifting heavy enough and often enough it will take a lot less than 1 year to "get strong".

Anonymous wrote:This is depressing.

I lift heavy 3x a week and I am over 50, thin and don't build muscle easily. I will keep doing it for health reasons but I guess I have to accept that I may never "look" strong.