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Gotta be the deadlifts!!!!

KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/07, 10:04 AM I just noticed the backs of my thighs in the mirror....the cellulit lumps are GONE!!!!!I can't believe it...I've run literally hundreds of miles on the treadmill...and the lumps were always there....who ever out there doesn't believe in weight training because you don't want to look to masculine...or like a body builder...you're missing out.I've been working with deadlifts for 6 weeks now...the last 3 weeks only 1 day a week on leg day...and the lumps are GONE!!!(sorry can't quit saying it!!!) :):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/09/07, 10:05 AM Yahoo now for all that work i did to convince you um there will be a bill in the mail. how will you be paying for that? I used to take steak but now only accept money. LOL Nice job! -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/07, 10:08 AM Thanks mutt....you're so silly....but you ARE the one who convinced me....I believe it was the "sissy" comment!!!!
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/09/07, 10:11 AM YUp that will be 25$ per rep, per set...so about 10K should do! -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
bb1fit Posts: 11,105 Joined: 2001/06/30	2006/09/07, 10:18 AM Congrats KC...yep, women who do not do weight training with adequate resistance are surely missing out. Many women have this 'conventional wisdom' in their heads they will become muscular or manly if they lift weights. Women do not have the testosterone it takes to build muscle, nor do they eat for muscle gain. Men try dam hard to gain muscle, if it was that easy, we would all be looking like Mr. Olympia in no time. -------------- Maximus from Gladiator....Strength and Honor!
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2006/09/07, 11:13 AM Good job! t -------------- I am training for birthdays. Be here. Live. Love. Hope. Now. Faith. Believe. You. - Keith Urban
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/09/07, 11:13 AM eh! -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
yadmit Posts: 4,670 Joined: 2003/10/05	2006/09/07, 11:31 AM Take off, eh. t -------------- I am training for birthdays. Be here. Live. Love. Hope. Now. Faith. Believe. You. - Keith Urban
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/09/07, 11:37 AM Listen Hoser! -------------- Less Talk, More Chalk! The Men and Boys are Separated by one thing: The Squat Cage! 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/07, 11:42 AM Here we go with the "canadian" talk again...to quote ba..."yawn"...now you two quit screwin up my thread!!!!!
	2006/09/07, 11:57 AM Congrats young-un. Thats what it's all about. Muscle is a great thing eh? -------------- Sometimes life is like herding cats. Charlie
asimmer Posts: 8,201 Joined: 2003/01/07	2006/09/08, 07:52 AM Congratulations, Kc!!!! Yell it from the rooftop!!! Weight training gets results previously unseen with cardio!!!!!! I wish we could force people to read this thread... -------------- Dont ever give up on a dream due to the amount of time it will take to achieve it. The time will pass anyway. - Russ Ebsen Aim high, time flies (fortune cookie saying)
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/08, 08:38 AM Thank you everybody for your encouragement...it really means alot...I tell everyone I come across that weights are by far the way to go...I've seen more results with the weights than I ever saw with cardio alone...and SO MUCH faster...and I don't have to starve myself to maintain my losses...weights don't leave you nearly as hungry as all that cardio...and I have so much energy...I was exhausted all the time with running 2-3 even 4 miles 6 days a week...the "gaining mass" fitness program has really done it for me...not the toning or the ab workout...but really lifting the weights...I started with 20 lbs on the deadlift and I am now up to 55...it's fabulous...I can't speak enough about what a benefit dropping the cardio(don't get me wrong...I still do some...but not anywhere close to what I used to)and really focusing on weights...not rubberbands but real weights!!! Sorry this is so long...but I'm so excited with my results I just want everybody else to get it!!!! Thank you ALL again...I would have never tried this with out the support and good information I get from all of you!!
sstump1 Posts: 1,227 Joined: 2005/03/20	2006/09/08, 09:22 AM Congrats KC...I see people at the gym that are on the cardio machines when I get there and still on it after I do my weights, shower and walk out the door. I haven't seen much results on any of them...with the exception that they can out Elliptical me any day of the week...which is fine cause I can lift their Elliptical and throw it across the room with them on it. However if I'm ever captured and held prisoner by Elliptical training cardio freaks they could torture me with hours and hours of swinging my legs back and forth. Seriously there is something to be said about a cardio work out a few days a week. I try to stick with the treadmill or the Stairs for about 15 minutes 2-3 times a week. Since I'm an ex-smoker it's good for the lung capacity. I say we make a 'rule of thumb' though if you can't lift at least one end of a cardio machine then you need to focus on weight training.
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/08, 09:42 AM That's funny stump....I have to agree with you...I often think the people on the ellipticals must really not like themselves....pure torture devices!!!!! I like your rule of thumb...should be the first thing PT instructors check before starting a workout regiment for their clents...:laugh: PS.....don't think I didn't see you posting on the about KC thread in the pro forum!!!!!you're ALL on the list now!!!!:big_smile:
sstump1 Posts: 1,227 Joined: 2005/03/20	2006/09/08, 10:05 AM What??? Me??? I didn't do nothing...I'm completely innocent of all charges. OK fine you got me...I came out of hiding for that thread...not that I'm admitting there is a thread...but if there was a thread I'd be there.
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/08, 10:20 AM Give it up...you've already been busted....I even got a copy of the thread sent to me....neener neener...I'm smarter than you all give me credit for...gotta watch out for the air heads...is it an act????maybe...maybe not...:love:
Elantraa Posts: 53 Joined: 2006/08/26	2006/09/08, 03:48 PM yay for no more cellulite!
Carivan Posts: 8,542 Joined: 2002/01/20	2006/09/08, 10:32 PM Way to go, congratulations KC, keep up the good work. This is worth being a sticky. -------------- Scales are for dead weight: We are not dead yet! Still trying to find out how to do the Hollywood Free Press. Ivan Montreal Canada (City of festivals)
	2006/09/08, 10:35 PM congrats...been pushing deadlifts on everyone for a while.....glad to see you're getting the results...
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/09/09, 08:54 AM That's just it menace...when I first started here all I read about was deadlifts....first...I had no clue what they even were....finally mutt convinced me to give them a go around.....and the backs of my legs were SO sore the next day....I had never targeted that particular muscle with ALL the running I was doing....I'm not suggesting that just doing deadlifts will get rid of those bumps...I know it was a combination of everything....but those deadlifts are something else....when I googled deadlift to see what it even was and I saw those guys with those MASSIVE weights...I said no way...then mutt called me a sissy...so I gave it a shot...with 20 pounds...and it worked great for me...if you're reading this wondering if all the stuff you've been reading on here about the difference in cardio and weights is true....it IS!!!!Take it from a long time skeptic!!!
wrestler125 Posts: 4,619 Joined: 2004/01/27	2006/10/30, 10:46 AM but aren't deadlifts bad for your back?
flyonthewall Posts: 1,823 Joined: 2005/01/18	2006/10/30, 10:49 AM Now wrestler, stop trying to stir the pot:)
7707mutt Posts: 7,686 Joined: 2002/06/18	2006/10/30, 10:57 AM Its kind of funny he said that. I was told yesterday during my sets of good mornings, by this guy doing leg extensions for three reps with 50lbs, that I was going to hurt my back do those and a better exercise was the lower back machine in the machine area. I went on to ask him if he ever had done them. He porudly stated that he had not ever done good mornings, squats and or deadlifts cause he had heard that you would pop your back out. I asked who and or where he had heard that from. he could not tell me. So I mentioned that I not only have done GM, but that I also had hit 335x3 with them, and that I only used a belt for maxing out on deadlifts and squats. He just shook his head and told me that I needed to learn more about lifting, cause he wears a belt all the time. I know this cause he makes a huge production of getting ready for hsi 40lb barbell curls with his fancy gloves and HUGE belt. My point is I gues is that it is so funny how people that never have done them claim to know so much about them. Oh yeah steve that made me laugh! -------------- When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant and which know me not, I am frightened and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me. Blaise Pascal 7707mutt@freetrainers.com
Velasca Posts: 441 Joined: 2006/10/26	2006/11/13, 12:11 AM the first time i did deadlifts my hamstrings got so tight i walked funny..hehehehe..but i know it will only get better :) -------------- We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2006/11/13, 11:04 AM Don't worry...I had to have my kids pick stuff up off the floor for me!!!:)...it did get better....and the site of my legs without those dreaded bumps was worth it!!!
1memorymakermom Posts: 11 Joined: 2006/11/18	2006/12/06, 03:51 PM That's really encourging to know, K.C. My trainer just showed me dead weights today. Ugh. I didn't like them! Sounds like they are worth the effort!
christal086 Posts: 155 Joined: 2007/01/06	2007/01/07, 05:42 PM this might sound really dumb, but can someone explain what deadlifts are? i am a newbie:(
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2007/01/07, 06:51 PM I had to google them myself christal when I first got here...type it into a search engine...you'll get images of monster guys with enormous amounts of weight...but I started with only 20 lbs...did 100 lbs 6 reps good form today for the first time...was amazing...truely. it's worth it ladies...read asimmers "ladies print and read" and a post from wrestler in the same forum...same spot...I forget what it's called...good info. -------------- \\"If you had one shot...or one opportunity to seize all you ever wanted...in one moment...would you capture it...or just let it slip\\" eminem
BIGKATT Posts: 82 Joined: 2006/12/19	2007/01/08, 10:21 PM Nice to hear! IF you don't already, be sure to also implement rear leg curls into your workout as well. They will enhance your hamstrings (Leg Biceps) on the back of the legs and give your legs a great shape...just some friendly advice :)
KC_72 Posts: 3,249 Joined: 2006/05/19	2007/01/09, 08:49 PM Thanks bigkatt...yes...those are in my routine..now... but the SLDL are by far my favorite!:) -------------- \\"If you had one shot...or one opportunity to seize all you ever wanted...in one moment...would you capture it...or just let it slip\\" eminem