Women's Workouts

[Holly Medearis]

Growing up I was pretty athletic and always enjoyed being active, but as I've gotten older, I've gotten lazier. Now, I find myself at 20 years old and I feel lazier than I have in my entire (short) life!!!

I'm young and I wanna be in shape, but I need some advice from people on things that would be good for me to eat and work outs that would be more gender specific for me. My friend does strongman and he has helped me a bunch, but sometimes I need to hear it all from a stranger to have it stick in my head...

Any help from you guys???

I've been reading your posts and stuff for a while, but I just decided to join today.

Thanks in advance!

[brianwalsh]

My advice would be that women should train like men. An athlete is an athlete and there have been tons of data to support how important it is for women to lift heavy. I trained the softball team at Valpo with a westside variation and it worked great. My girlfriend just started posting her log on here. It is Mallorys Log.

[Nikhil Rao]

My advice would be that women should train like men. An athlete is an athlete and there have been tons of data to support how important it is for women to lift heavy. I trained the softball team at Valpo with a westside variation and it worked great. My girlfriend just started posting her log on here. It is Mallorys Log.

Rep points to Brian for this.

Unless you plan on strength sports, there's no harm in varying your rep range (nothing wrong with a little body builder 3x10 kind of stuff) or doing more isolation than most of us do. But I wholeheartedly agree with this.

Whether we're talking fitness/figure competitors or athletes, the best of the best in the female world train exactly like the best of the best in the male world.

[CharlesDMickey]

I hear that pretty lady pictured in the banner up top is one heck of a trainer. I think she is pretty close to Bellingham.

Just a thought.

[Andy Vincent]

I suggested my wife use a program designed by Mike Gill on www.chasingkaz.com (http://messageboard.tuckermax.com/showpost.php?p=467407&postcount=1) when she was ready to start getting back into shape after the birth of our second child. In my opinion, you can't go wrong with the basic compound movements; overhead press, squat, and deadlift. She's made good gains on the program, and loves the looks she gets from the girls (and guys) in the gym doing these movements.