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Getting stronger!
Hey! So I was reading through stuff and saw you knew a lot about like health stuff! Well, here's the thing. Im a girl; sophomore in highschool and I've always been really small (short, thin, just all around little). At the moment I'm aaalmost 5'5, 100lbs. And I can prolly bench about as much as a four year old. It gets really old getting called "little girl" and man handled on a regular basis. But mostly I get a lot of crap for being so weak. I'm a cheerleader and I cheer year round on a state squad but I'm a flyer (the girl in the air) so I've never done much arm strength wise. Cause of cheerleading I'm pretty happy abs and legs wise but no matter what I do my arms never seem to get any stronger than what they are... Which isn't strong at all. I don't have weights at home and it's just downright embarrassing to weight lift around other people at out school gym and stuff. I take yoga and cardio boxing but I'm not happy. Can you help me? Maybe if you know certiant things I can do at home to get stronger?? And if you really suggest weight lifting then help with that too cause I don't ben know where to start? Haha or maybe just a way to get people to lay off my strength cause you sound kinda bad ass, not gonna lie. It's just really disheartening, getting made fun of, picked up, tossed around and messed with cause you're little. I mean it's mostly stupid (high school) guys who think they're hot shit and yeah people say its "flirting" but there's nothing flattering about feeling weak and helpless all the time but I don't know what else I can do at this point... Help?
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uh, thanks, but I'm not a badass. I just spent six years surrounded by weightlifters and health nuts, so some of their knowledge rubbed off. the way that I started my journey from fatass to fit was through cardio, but once I shattered my leg jumping out of airplane(if you ever get the chance, go skydiving, its fun), I couldn't run anymore. so, I started working on upper body strength to compensate for the whole "walking with a cane" thing.
I started out with twenty pound weights, doing two sets of ten reps for each muscle group. every week, I'd move up in weight. I started in december 09, and by may or so, I was using 75 pound weights, albeit with a changed rep plan( 2 sets of 6 reps at 75 lbs, and 1 set of 4 reps at 85 lbs). I didn't bulk up much during the process, just got a lot stronger. something similar might work out for you. you might want to start out with ten pound weights, seeing as how you're half my size... but if you keep working at it every night, you'll see some results.
have fun, and put up with their bullshit for now, because its really fun to surprise the hell out of the haters after a few months.
-Gunner
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