Comments on: Ladies who lift

By: gubernatrix

gubernatrix — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:22:42 +0000

It’s a difficult question because, as you point out, there are very few women to compare against because most women don’t train these movements. The issue is, what would most women achieve if they trained? I would say that decent ‘achievable’ standards are: bodyweight bench, double bodyweight deadlift and 1.5 bodyweight squat. Some people will get a bit more, some a bit less. Although these numbers seem unusual, they would be commonplace if women trained in these lifts as much as men did. Those numbers represent a decent level of strength that you can achieve with consistent training. After you reach this point, the increases generally come a lot more slowly (or so I am finding!).

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:08:47 +0000

at what point did you realize you where stronger than average, in 9 months of training my GF has a 50kg bench, 90kg dead, 70kg back sqauat and a 60kg front squat. I think this is well over average for a woman but theres not a whole lot of girls to compare against………. so how did you know?

By: gubernatrix

gubernatrix — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:09:13 +0000

@ Kira: so true!

@ varsha: good idea – I’ve added a Facebook icon to posts now

@ Justin: well said, mate.

By: Varsha

Varsha — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:22:34 +0000

You have a yellow RSS button and a stumble it button.Do add a Facebook button I mean.

By: Justin_P

Justin_P — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:12:15 +0000

There’s a huge misconception about training out there. Your exercise alone doesn’t dictate how big your body gets. I’ve been pounding this point for as long as I’ve blogged. You get big based on the food that you eat (or the steroids that you take). Pretty simple: to get big, you have to eat big and lift heavy/do really hard BW stuff.

If anyone’s dealing with women afraid of getting bulky or man-like by lifting big stuff, tell them this. Women don’t turn into Melissa Dettwiller by touching 100 lbs of weight on a barbell.

Nice article.

By: gubernatrix

gubernatrix — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:49:48 +0000

What is this facebook icon of which you speak? I have a facebook fan page but I guess that’s not what you mean.

By: varsha

varsha — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:13:03 +0000

Gubs,
an inspiring,Hear! Hear! kind of post.I wanted to put it on my facebook page so all my non-lifting female friends could read.But no facebook icon?

By: KIra

KIra — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:20:47 +0000

Ladies that lift heavy are bad-ass!

I train with a few ladies … and they all do the same kind of strength sessions as the dudes …

Deadlifts and squats are for everybody

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