First Time Ladytraining

[buffazn]

First of all no i am not a lady haha.

my girlfriend has decided she wants to get back in the gym again and ive convinced her to train properly imo, so she is willing to part herself from her ex gym's (configure) mindset of all this BAT cardio circuit bs and try a more bb style training program.

so i back myself 110% when it comes to training but i've never trained a girl before let alone write up a program for a woman and so im looking for some advice from you nzbb gals.

what i was thinking of doing was to just train her like how i would a guy, and instead of doing the normal thing like what you hear from most women's only gyms (circuits, a ton of cardio and super light weight/high rep), i was thinking of a more blood and guts approach, compound exercises with heavier weight and lower reps, as heavy + low reps will achieve sarcomeric/myofibrillar hypertrophy instead of sarcoplasmic/fluid hypertrophy (lighter weight, higher rep like what most gym trainers prescribe women).

so even though i haven't really looked too much into this and its untouched waters for me, i reckon women should train within the 2-8 rep range to tone up and develop that stone lean, sexy physique, rather than high reps which results in a soft but pumped look. obviously i'll start her off on a newbie full body workout program to begin with. what do you guys reckon??

oh and shes 5'6, size 8 and damn fine if i must say so myself :grin: so she doesn't have any fat loss goals, mostly just health, strength and a bit of muscle in mind

[runveerun]

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[oneheckofawoman]

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[cantygirl]

Without going into the science issues of training, my advice to you would be start on higher rep range, simply because this will be new training stimulis for her and if you do lower reps, she would probably cope fine at the time however, she is gona hate you 2 days later!!!!!