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So now I've posted the intent to start strength training on Facebook, Tumblr and Blogger. So maybe I'd better actually do something about it, eh?
I have my handy old The New Rules of Lifting for Women, which is great but not perfect. Also it's written by a man, who has his own stupid manly thoughts about women's motivations in fitness and desires for aesthetic. Blech.
I just bought a Kindle copy of Starting Strength, which is not geared toward a particular gender, and focuses on only a few full-body lifting moves, but goes into extensive detail on how to do the lifts and why, which should make the physiology geek in me VERY, very happy.
I have some basic lifting equipment at home:
Simple weight bench that includes a lat pulldown bar
Barbells (~20 lb, not the Olympic 45 lb bar, and two handheld)
80 or 100 pounds in plates
Plenty to get me started. I look forward to the day that 100 lb is not enough.
Since my final straw was a moment of pure hatred at the culture that tells us women are weak and can't do pull-ups, my summer of 10 chin-up strength (I guess a chin-up is when your grip is palms-in and a pull-up is palms-out grip, which I didn't know then. I don't know how many pull-ups I could have done if I'd trained for it) was at 114 lb. If I pair that with my running-fit summer (though admittedly bulimic, unstable, and unhealthy) weight of 118.5-123, I come up with 114-123 as a goal weight range. I'm only a few pounds from that now, and I'm so low on muscle that I'm sure a few months of training will shrink me down considerably. I think that I could be sort of happy at a fit, strong 114-123.
So now I've posted the intent to start strength training on Facebook, Tumblr and Blogger. So maybe I'd better actually do something about it, eh?
I have my handy old The New Rules of Lifting for Women, which is great but not perfect. Also it's written by a man, who has his own stupid manly thoughts about women's motivations in fitness and desires for aesthetic. Blech.
I just bought a Kindle copy of Starting Strength, which is not geared toward a particular gender, and focuses on only a few full-body lifting moves, but goes into extensive detail on how to do the lifts and why, which should make the physiology geek in me VERY, very happy.
I have some basic lifting equipment at home:
Simple weight bench that includes a lat pulldown bar
Barbells (~20 lb, not the Olympic 45 lb bar, and two handheld)
80 or 100 pounds in plates
Plenty to get me started. I look forward to the day that 100 lb is not enough.
Since my final straw was a moment of pure hatred at the culture that tells us women are weak and can't do pull-ups, my summer of 10 chin-up strength (I guess a chin-up is when your grip is palms-in and a pull-up is palms-out grip, which I didn't know then. I don't know how many pull-ups I could have done if I'd trained for it) was at 114 lb. If I pair that with my running-fit summer (though admittedly bulimic, unstable, and unhealthy) weight of 118.5-123, I come up with 114-123 as a goal weight range. I'm only a few pounds from that now, and I'm so low on muscle that I'm sure a few months of training will shrink me down considerably. I think that I could be sort of happy at a fit, strong 114-123.
