Weights useless on me?

[melimcn]

OK I realize this defies logic and physical sense....

Can anyone suggest what I'm doing wrong?

I swear, that everytime I increase the amount of lifting I'm doing, I just get flabbier.
I have religiously rotated the GS's, MM, PP, and Supersets...as well as some of the total body and upper body routines in LIC and Drill Max. I have gone high weight, low reps, high reps...low weight, high reps, low reps...
It really seems like I've tried everything, and I just get flabbier and bigger as I subsitute weight work for cardio.

Once I go back to hard cardio with little to no weight work, I tighten up again.

Anyone have any thoughts on this or what I could be doing wrong?

 

[cakebaker]

Maybe try Circuit training - this seems to work VERY well for me. I can't do the cardio/weights alternating days route 'cause my weight would sky rocket. That's just me. You have to try it all - I would go back to more cardio if I were you. I have to do at least 5 days a week of cardio with about 3 of those days being very intense.

By "I just get flabbier and bigger" do you mean you actually gain weight?

 

[fit_fairy]

Sorry, I have to ask it- what's your eating like? Some people tend to be hungier and eat more when they wt train.

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[melimcn]

I don't gain weight, I just feel and look flabbier.

For example, when I'm doing cardio only, my abs are taught and flat. It does not look like I have much fat on them at all. When I'm weight training, I lose that. I'm not as toned. (my ab work does not change)

My diet is pretty consistent across the board. I would not say that I eat clean, but I never have. I do love my pizza. I try to do a salad a day for one of my meals, and eat more protein than carbs (healthy carbs only!) for the rest of my meals. So it's not clean, but it's consistent. I have never noticeably changed my diet while weight training.

It's important to note that this is something that I've been experiencing on and off for years. I'll try weights for a few weeks, and then ultimately abandon them because I don't like how I'm looking.
It's just so frustrating, because I hear what wonderful results all of you have out here with more lifting, less cardio.

I'll give circuit a try for awhile, so thanks for the suggestion!