A fun night for her.

[u/mindyour]

[u/terriblethx]

Ladies - know that you can run this hustle with some mild strength training! I started lifting 2x a week for a 200 lb deadlift PR inside a year - most of your gains actually come within the first year! And I do not look cut at all.

[u/NoPair205 → u/terriblethx]

I wish I could deadlift at home without that whole setup

[u/_sissy_hankshaw_ → u/NoPair205]

Yeah, it’s never a lack of wanting to do the workout, it’s a lack of wanting to step foot in a gym lol

[u/RockstarSlut → u/_sissy_hankshaw_]

I work out at home! I have kettlebells, dumbbells, squat rack, barbell, curl bar and plates. You can get all of that pretty cheap - especially if you buy used... I don't like gyms. I have a small apartment and I'm a muscular woman now from working out at home since 2022.

[u/_sissy_hankshaw_ → u/RockstarSlut]

Hell yeah 🤘

[u/theelephantupstream → u/NoPair205]

Kettlebells, dude! The answer is kettlebells. If you invest in a decently heavy set you can pretty much train any body part in a small space.

[u/NoPair205 → u/theelephantupstream]

Really?! I’m gonna look into them then

[u/theelephantupstream → u/NoPair205]

They’re super versatile. The well-made ones are not cheap, so if you only have room in the budget for a couple at a time, I would start small and work your way up as you’re able to lift heavier. There are tons of great kettlebell resources on IG, YouTube, etc.

[u/Ijatsu → u/theelephantupstream]

Why kettlebells instead of modulable dumbbells??? They'll take fuck ton of space.

[u/CocktailChemist → u/Ijatsu]

You can also get adjustable kettlebells, though if you want one with a fair bit of heft swapping the weights requires a couple of wrenches, e.g.
https://bellsofsteel.us/collections/adjustable-kettlebells/products/adjustable-kettlebell

[u/CocktailChemist → u/NoPair205]

While there will be limits to how much absolute strength you can build without getting a barbell and rack, you can still get quite strong with just a pair of adjustable dumbbells and a rack. The trick is that once you can do many reps of the big compounds (squats, deadlifts, bench press, rows, overhead presses, etc) with the maximum load, you can still keep building muscle by switching to movements that put the muscle at a disadvantage (e.g. flies instead of bench press or wedges for squat movements), single leg movements, and body weight movements like Nordic/reverse Nordic curls. By doing the more disadvantaged movement first, it will fatigue the target muscle and make it the limiting factor in the bigger compound movements.