38F. 5’6”. 135 pounds. Been lifting about a year (2-3x per week) and have done approx 15 sessions with personal trainers to teach me technique. Losing the weight after baby #2 was tough and I feel in love with strength training! I feel like I found the fountain of youth.

Squat - 95lbs (suspect I can do more)
Deadlift - 125lbs
RDL - 45 each leg
Bicep - 15lbs
Tricep - 10 to 15lbs

I don’t do chest press.

You didn’t ask, but I bench 65 lbs. I also love a good carry and offset carry.

Progressive overload is also important to maintain and gain bone density.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

Ok this makes more sense. i thought it was someone saying the posters here were lying which I though was odd as most of the weights listed are not even close to brag worthy.

Yes, well I workout from home with limited dumbbells and a barbell with no rack. I’m not interested in power lifting. I am interested in strength training and will likely have to join a gym in the future but not looking forward to it.

Powerlifting is pretty much the definition of strength training, though it narrowly focuses on three main lifts, which is what I guess you don’t want. In any case, if strength is your goal you need to focus on heavy (for you) weights and progressively overload over time. This is very hard to do at home with a few dumbbells, particularly for leg exercises.

NP - it's true that progressive overload is important to strength and also that it can become harder to build leg strength especially if you only have access to dumbbells.

But: there are different models of strength training and different ways to hit progressive overload. It's not solely powerlifting. All efforts to build strength should be applauded, as not everyone has either access to or interest in barbells/powerlifting. The latter can be rough on the pelvic floor and joints, if not done properly.

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Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

Ok this makes more sense. i thought it was someone saying the posters here were lying which I though was odd as most of the weights listed are not even close to brag worthy.

Yes, well I workout from home with limited dumbbells and a barbell with no rack. I’m not interested in power lifting. I am interested in strength training and will likely have to join a gym in the future but not looking forward to it.

Powerlifting is pretty much the definition of strength training, though it narrowly focuses on three main lifts, which is what I guess you don’t want. In any case, if strength is your goal you need to focus on heavy (for you) weights and progressively overload over time. This is very hard to do at home with a few dumbbells, particularly for leg exercises.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

Ok this makes more sense. i thought it was someone saying the posters here were lying which I though was odd as most of the weights listed are not even close to brag worthy.

Yes, well I workout from home with limited dumbbells and a barbell with no rack. I’m not interested in power lifting. I am interested in strength training and will likely have to join a gym in the future but not looking forward to it.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

Ok this makes more sense. i thought it was someone saying the posters here were lying which I though was odd as most of the weights listed are not even close to brag worthy.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

This

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

I thought capping refers to keeping weights purposefully low when weight training. PP is saying, go heavier.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

? "capping"?

DP, it slang for lying. PP is apparently 25 years old.

Female, 5' 5", 46, 160 lbs

Squats 155lbs barbell back squat
Lunges 30lbs dumbbells
Deadlift 175lbs barbell
RDLs 115lb barbell
Biceps 15 lbs dumbbells (10-12 reps)
Triceps 10 lbs dumbbells, don't do kickbacks much though
Chest Press 35 lbs dumbbells, barbell bench press 100lbs

F, 5’9”, 185#, age 51
Squats 30lb (dbs)
Lunges 30lb (dbs)
RDLs 30lb (dbs) or 84 lb (bb) depends on mood
Biceps 20 lbs dumbbells
Triceps 15 lbs dumbbells
Chest Press 20 lbs dumbbells

Anonymous wrote:Stop capping ladies!

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Stop capping ladies!

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Anonymous wrote:List your gender, height, weight and what weights you use for the following? (assume 30-45 sec sets)

F 5’4 130 pounds
Squats 20lbs dumbbells
Lunges 20lbs dumbbells
RDLs 20 lbs, sometimes 15 if I’m tired
Biceps 12 lbs dumbbells
Triceps 8 lbs dumbbells
Chest Press 15 lbs dumbbells

F 5’2" 130 pounds, 36y/o

I do sets of 5-10, I don't do sets based on time

Squats 110lbs
Lunges 50lbs
RDLs 105lbs,
Biceps 20lbs
Triceps 15lbs
Chest Press 60lbs

The RDLs with a barbell?

I do traditional stiff legged deadlifts with a barbell. I just copied and pasted, and only changed the weights.

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Anonymous wrote:ladies add weight!!! you can do more.

+1 people should not RDL the same weight they bicep curl. When I restarted completely deconditioned during the pandemic I was still able to easily do 40lbs DBs for sets of 12-15. A year later I was grabbing 90s. If grip is an issue use straps, but using 15-20lbs DBs is a waste of time for most leg movements unless you are working some sort of HIIT circuit.

Yes. I am still not where I should be but everyone should work out once or twice with a trainer that pushes them - you’ll see you’re capable of a lot!