female fitness

Edit: Scoreboard link What is Sheffield 2023? Sheffield is a powerlifting meet hosted by SBD Apparel in the town of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is also the reason many of your favorite powerlifters didn’t compete in their respective National Championships earlier this month...

Hi lovely fit people! I’ve given myself a hard 6-month deadline to reach the following goals: Body fat mass: from 31.9 to ~ 22.7 - 24.0 lbs Lean (muscle) mass: from 88 to ~ 89 - 91 lbs Body fat %: from 25.6% to ~ 19.5 - 20.5 % I began doing a "smart bulk" for a few weeks and recently realized...

Before you get the wrong idea, I’m not a part of any hipster cult or weird nudist colony. I would consider myself to be a very average, married, vanilla mid-twenties female. I’m very new to yoga but I’m curious to how far I can push my body. And like many women I, too, have body image issues...

Hi ladies! I used to hate cardio but I've recently really started enjoying it. A friend dragged me to Barry's Bootcamp and I gotta say I loved it! I loved it so much that I googled an imitation Barry's workout online and found this...

So I’ve always been around 170lbs. So not chunky. Not skinny. Lil’ chub. I was okay with that. Fast forward to 6 years ago, I was in 2 awful relationships. Gained 140lbs in the past 6 years. I tried everything to get the weight off. Every diet. Like. Every. Single. One. Then 7 months ago, I...

I recently shared a photo on r/progresspics that showed my very very slow and somewhat unintentional recomp progress over the last 3.5 years, and based on some responses, I thought others may find some of my experience helpful, especially those that may struggle with the scale. I recently...

I recently started an Arnold split after some advice from Reddit to mix up my six day PPL. So far I love it and I will admit it’s a lot of volume. I’m not a moron and know Arnold uses steroids to achieve success. I’m not trying to look like him! I was in another forum and asked if anyone does...

Hi r/xxfitness ! I just finished my third full cycle of Candito's 6-Week Powerlifting Program and wanted to share what I learned and how it worked out for me. Background Played hockey for 11 years (2005 to 2016) so I am already familiar with form Working out and seriously weightlifting since...

Hi guys, I did not find anything related to this on the FAQ and I hope it’s not breaking any rules. I’m 27 and I was NEVER an athletic person. For some reason though, I started to actually enjoy exercising in January this year and I haven’t stopped working out regularly ever since, with a...

45(f), 5’ 7”, 158lbs. Long torso & short legs. In this video, I’m working with 125 lbs, but I upped it to 135 for my final set (I do 3 x 8). Keeping my feet slightly narrower than hips width, and I’m using a mixed grip. I watched the Juggernaut Pillars of Deadlift videos, which were very...

TL;DR: I worked out a lot over the holiday season and it was both good and bad. Enjoy! After the heartbreak I found myself enduring at the end of last year, I found myself dreading my annual leave time over the Christmas break. The man who had purported himself to be one of my dreams, a man to...

I am 22 and have always been on the slimmer side and pretty unfit, with a high body fat percentage. I’d love to be much broader, with wide shoulders and bigger arms, but it feels very unattainable for me. I work out 3 times a week and try to eat as much as I can (I don’t count calories, but...

Hi ladies! So I want to get into running in the mornings more often and I know I need new shoes. I usually go for all black or mostly black Nike Air's of some kind. I wouldn't be doing any long distances anytime soon and I'd be running on the street and on the treadmill. I've been...

I had my 2nd powerlifting meet this last weekend. My first meet was in December 2014 and I was 115lbs. I first started lifting sometime before last summer, probably May 2014. I wasn't really consistent until September when I signed up for my first meet, but that was mainly because I was out of...

I can't wait to start sporting this! Was super excited when I unwrapped it :D ... especially with how pricey (IMO) these things are :X

Has anybody else been seeing tons of TikToks recently basically saying Pilates is where it’s at now? I just saw one that says lifting 4-6 x week with progressive overload is causing us to have "imbalanced hormones" and to "hold onto fat" and these women are suddenly seeing the changes they've...

While the fight weight photo is not the photo taken 24 hours after the weigh-in, the recording from the fight itself clearly shows that her weigh-in body was not her fighting body. I know /r/xxfitness was filled with chatter about how she looked during that weigh-in but it's a physique that...

Bad Apricot shared the Stronger By Science article yesterday and I wanted to expand a conversation about women’s muscle growth as we age. I wasn’t ever able to easily muscle gain mass as a lifelong athlete until my thirties. With no other evidence than my own experience, I always suspected my...

Hi all and happy 2024. It's going to be a great year. I made some pretty significant strides in 2023 regarding my health and happiness and am continuing to focus on them. I've embraced the gym after years (decades) of avoidance, lifting weights again at the tender age of 50+. Guess what? I...

Hi All, First time poster here... I had a DEXA scan done and wanted to share the results, and also ask you guys, does this seem right to you? The results of the scan say about 17% BF, which is much lower than I was expecting. Here are the results and some pictures of me (bikini!). I am...