Fitness Fail

Assorted ramblings on training, nutrition, social issues surrounding these areas and a generous side of irrelevancy

Women and not lifting heavy, when will the myths FINALLY die?

OK, this one is nothing terribly new, but some of the places I’m still bumping into it are driving my crazy. Where does this nonsense where women are afraid they’ll look like a female contest bodybuilder come from? Seriously. I’m tired of it.

I’m increasingly seeing fitness blogs and articles around the internet extolling the virtues of women lifting. This is good, really good. I’m really glad to see this step in the right direction. But all too often those same pieces feature pictures of some curl curling ten pounds. So, just this once, I’m going to stop being critical and try to produce something helpful.

Making gyms “inviting”.

My initial rather callous response was “If it makes you uncomfortable, get over it, you’re there to workout. You will sweat, you will get dirty, it will hurt, it won’t be pretty.” Now, almost as soon as I wrote this, I realized what a cheesy affected macho sentiment it sounded like. I started to wonder why I had such an irate reaction and it got my thinking.

and they let her teach?

I just finished up a Yoga class I was taking through college and my instructor there is a complete moron. Okay, maybe not complete but she tries to force information into her student’s heads that is unreliable, out dated or just plain wrong.
Each class she gives out a handout at the beginning of class (good [...]

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