1. Overload the muscles
2. You can rest longer between sets
3. You get stronger
4. Your bones get stronger
5. Less wearing on the joints
6. Better focus on few, but heavier reps
7. You train your ability to focus
8. Easier to track progress
9. Get faster results
10. To recruit the strongest muscle fibers you need lift like you mean it
5. Less wearing on the joints.
I’ve got about 20 good years to go before I start having some serious problems. I don’t want to make it come any sooner!
“A question I have is: What kind of weight did you lift when you first started? I know women are supposed to try to life heavier, but where is a good place to start? And where are you at now? (For example, dumbbell bicep curls.)”
A good place to start is a weight you can lift for 8-12 reps with proper form. If you can do more than 12, the weight is too light. When I first started, I was curling 5 pound dumbbells, now I curl 20s. Work your way up each week. =)
One way to progress with the weights is to start with a weight you can lift for 8 reps for about 3-4 sets. Then the next workout, get to 10 reps. The next workout after that, get to 12. Then, up the weight! Of course, if you can lift heavier sooner, go for it! But that’s just an example of a way to progress =)
Time to start lifting!
Flowers for mothers day! :)
Can’t help but feel sad. “everythings fine” but we barely speak. I’m starting to think I did something wrong, but I have no idea what.
Seems to occur a lot sooner to me..
(via psychofactz)
“You see, people in the depressive position are often stigmatised as ‘failures’ or ‘losers’. Of course, nothing could be further from the truth. If these people are in the depressive position, it is most probably because they have tried too hard or taken on too much, so hard and so much that they have made themselves ‘ill with depression’. In other words, if these people are in the depressive position, it is because their world was simply not good enough for them. They wanted more, they wanted better, and they wanted different, not just for themselves, but for all those around them. So if they are failures or losers, this is only because they set the bar far too high. They could have swept everything under the carpet and pretended, as many people do, that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds. But unlike many people, they had the honesty and the strength to admit that something was amiss, that something was not quite right. So rather than being failures or losers, they are just the opposite: they are ambitious, they are truthful, and they are courageous. And that is precisely why they got ‘ill’.”
-Hide and Seek: The Psychology of Self-Deception by Dr. Neel Burton
(http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201203/the-anatomy-melancholy-can-depression-be-good-you)
The Importance of Forgetting (NPR) -
via On Point with Tom Ashbrook:
We talk so much about memory. Not losing it. Enhancing it. Diving into it. Working through it. Sometimes, says a raft of new science, it’s better to just forget. Forgetting, it turns out, may be a key part of mental health, mental hygiene.
Sigmund Freud said deal with it. Dive into that repressed stuff. Work it out. Work it through. Tony Soprano said “fuggetaboutit.” Tony Soprano may have been right. Remember and you’ll ruminate. Ruminate, and you’re bummed. The brain is also built to forget.
This hour, On Point: memory and forgetting, and when forgetting may be for the best.
That’s what I’ve been saying for years.
I weigh 150lbs in both photos.
The one on the left was taken at the end of march, the one on the right was taken yesterday, the end of April.
Please tell me how lifting is making me bulky. :)
Oh my goodness. This is all the inspiration and motivation I need.
(via healthy-is-sexy)
Oh hello. :)
(Source: replaceface)
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