Leslie
An attorney, she lives in Kimberton, has two children and is in her forties. She works in an office, and had no athletic background. At one point, after her second child was born, she weighed over 200 pounds. Leslie had already been training at the YMCA (the unproductive way most women train in clubs!!) at the time of this "before" picture, and had typically low strength. For example, she could do ten wobbly repetitions in the squat with only the bar (45 lb), and barely ten reps in the bench dips for triceps. For seated dumbbell presses she could handle 20-pounders and do curls with 10-pounders. Now she does her squats with 225 pounds, bench dips with over 100 pounds on her lap, seated dumbbell presses with 50-pounders, and dumbbell curls with 40-pounders. It took her over a year before she could do a regular dip -now she can do a dozen. When she "works in" with men in the weight-room, she sometimes has to add more plates to what they're handling. They're not too crazy about that, but she's loving it!
Nov 1999 March 2000 Oct 2000