Posts by main_street_riot

age - 15

height - 5'1

current weight - 125 =/

goal weight - 110 or so by at the latest may

Original Post by morrighu:

Instead of focusing on loosing weight, convert it to muscle. Unlike many women, I'm a big advocate of female weight training, especially in young ladies your age. It does more to strengthen bone and muscle than any other form of exercise. It also helps to raise your basal metabolic rate since muscle tissue also burns more calories, even at rest, than fat. It will help prevent osteoporosis when you get older. It doesn't have to take long either.

Done properly, you'll still look lady-like and not mannish like the female weight lifters (ewww). You want to have someone at the gym show you how to operate the equipment properly. Start of with bench presses. Upper body strength is an issue for females. This has the added benefit of building your chest muscles which make your boobs look bigger. Find out what the maximum weight you can bench press is. That means the most you can lift just one time but are unable to complete the 2nd repetition. Go 5 pounds below that weight and do 5 repetitions of the bench press. That's it. It shouldn't take you 5 minutes to do and you're done with that for the day. Next is the squat. Again, find out what the maximum is and go approximately 10% under that. If you can squat 200# once but not twice, than 200# is your max weight. 180# (200 - 20 or 10%) is your working weight. 5 reps and your done. Do that three times a week.

Once you find that your working weight on any given exercise is getting easy, it's time to retest to see what your new max weight is. Retest to determine your new max and then use that to bump up your working weight. Once you get that down, you can start adding other things - preacher curls, leg presses, etc. that will address specific target areas. Follow the same kind of practice - nearly max. weight and just a few reps. You'll be a toned, calorie burning machine.

ooh. thanks =]]

great job!! how'd yu do it??

im 15. 5'1 and weigh 127. but don't worry, im trying to get down to 115.

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i totally don't get this wieght loss stuff.

why should i eat like 1600 calories when im trying to lose weight??

wouldn't it be better to only have like 900 or 1000?? 

 HELP?? =/