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To lift, or not to lift…
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I've also done a Bod Pod, and at the time I was around the same thickness as I am now, and I was at 19% body fat, with nearly 100 pounds of lean muscle (estimated).
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If youve done figure competitions then you should know the diet is the key to losing fat, not how you train.
If your 5'1 and 19% at 100 pounds, then thats not a lot of muscle my friend.
at 5'1 and a lot of muscle you should be 115 – 120 at 19%, stage weight of 105 – 110 at 15%
that would mean you would be maybe 95 lbs at stage weight.
It makes no sense. Even the smallest bikini girls are 98 lbs at 16%
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No, I wasn't 100 pounds, I was 120, with 19% body fat and nearly 100 pounds lean mass..
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At my leanest (when I was not healthy looking) I wasa 106. I had very little body fat. Now I'm closer to 120 again, and I'm looking for the happy medium.
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i would love to see pics of this.
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I'll have to look at photobucket (when I'm not at work, hehe). I'm not BSing you, I do have a very gymastics-like body type. When I was 106, I was not healthy by any means. I had no strength, I was not eating enough. I don't want to go that far, because it takes some food to maintain strength and not just fall off the pole..if I wanted to drop kcals at this point I'd need to go to about 1200-1400 per day, and that's hard for me. I guess that's the only real answer, anyway.
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I find it hard to believe because you are telling me that you have more muscle mass than someone who has been bodybuilding for 18 years and has one of the top figures in the world. Someone whos stage weight is 110 at 14% bodyfat, who qualified for the junior nationals in their first show and has placed top 3 in international competitions. I highly doubt you have to drop to 1200 cals immeditely, even i dont go that low and im shorter and weigh less than you.
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I’m just going based on what I’d have to eat to lose 1lb a week. I’m not saying I have a great body by any means. Or I wouldn’t be asking. I definitely am not trying to be difficult, my physique is nowhere comparable to a figure competitors at its current state, I am only using the stats I received from the bod pod many years ago. It’s possible as I have aged I have lost some muscle mass. I am just trying to figure out if I just do pole if it’s enough to maintain the mass I have now and drop weight rather than lose more muscle than necessary when losing the weight.
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I completely agree with you, and I’m on no way trying to say you are wrong or be difficult about this. I didn’t mean for this to get to this point, because i do understand that the myth of bulk really lies more in the subcutaneous fat stores than the muscle mass itself.
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I think poling is super great for the upper body, but for the legs, you are going to need more if you plan on maintaing mass or building.
Personally I pole 3 days a week and weight train 4, plus teach my spin classes weekly. Ive been able to maintain my weight but cals are high, protein at 120g a day.
If its been some years since you have been lifting regularly and had those stats, then your body will have changed, so agian you are still looking at taking off the fat to see what is left. Youre at an advatage from lots of people in that you should still have a nice base to cut down and see what you got.
I would not advise immedietly dropping to 1400 cals to drop weight. I would drop 300 cals from what you are eating now, add lifitng in and cardio for another 200 – 300 cal burn. If you are not sure what you are eating now, then journal for a few days and see. But protein should be high, moderate fats and fill the rest in with carbs (healthy ones 🙂 )
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Okay, I think I scrubbed my photobucket a while back, so this is the best I can do. I wasn't at my highest weight here, nor was I at my lowest weight, but probably a happy medium. If I could get BACK to this point, I would be thrilled, because it's about where I want to be. Disregard the lame pose because it was a posing pic for the figure comp I was prepping for.
I guess it's just a matter of adding more leg work in and using the pole as my primary upper body/back workout. I think I need to up the cardio a bit, too, but we'll see how the extra weights/calorie reduction does in the meantime.
Thanks for your help!
<a href="http://s41.beta.photobucket.com/user/sarabethers/media/HPIM0666.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e269/sarabethers/HPIM0666.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"/></a>
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Looks like you have some nice quads going there, Hard to tell much else by that photo. Id say you have a good base at least, but take off the fat and do some heavy lifting and hope that muscle memory kicks in.
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You can make pole into a cardio workout too, just freestyle and keep moving instead of working on tricks only. Put on some high-paced music and just go! That's the nice thing about pole, it's pretty versatile. You get out of it what you put into it.
I have a scale at home that *supposedly* calculates your body fat and water percentage. For the past at least six months (I wasn't weighing in regularly before that) it's been telling me my body fat percentage is 16.9% and water was 56.6% (some tiny variations here or there; my fat this morning was 17.1% for the first time in forever). I am 5'5" and 170lbs give or take a couple. So that measurement seems … off to me. Even looking at me I feel I'm more than 17% fat – mostly in my chest!
Buuuuuut I'm too cheap to shell out for a better measurer.
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Nothing you can buy at home, sans calipers would get you anything in the ballpark for the most part. You need to find a local gym or university that has a bod pod OR hydrostatic water testing.
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