Bad Advice?

GiddyupTim

Never, ever listen to a doctor about exercise or nutrition.
Medical doctors are trained to know about, and treat, illness, injury and disease. They sometimes think this makes them experts on health, and it probably is true that they pay attention to information they acquire on health more than many average people do.
But they often have little context, because they do not have any real experience in these things because they have spent so much time learning about diseases.
They are also prone to that fallacy that starts when they see that some guy who has a bad knee, for example, who happens to be a runner. Maybe the runner seeks health care faster because he/she wants to keep running. So, the doctor sees a few and comes to the conclusion that running kills your knees.
But people don't go to the doctor if they don't have a problem. So doctors never see all those other people who run miles and miles, for years, and never have any serious problem.
But, what is he going to tell you? "Everyone I see who runs has bad knees!"
PS It is REALLY, REALLY hard to get bulky lifting weights. You have to lift very heavy and you have to eat a lot and you have to want it. Otherwise, you are probably going to get strong and healthy, but you won't get a lot bigger. Think of all the athletes that lift weights -- the basketball players, soccer players, sprinters, volleyball players, even baseball players. They lift for years and they work hard. But soccer players aren't huge. Sprinters aren't huge, except their thighs. Volleyball players aren't huge or they wouldn't be able to jump so high.
Football players get huge because they have training tables and because they want to. Probably also, they were huge to begin with or they wouldn't have chosen to play football.

HermanLily

I'm a female on steroids for medical reasons, and to literally save my life and I can tell you this, i am far from bulky. I have a female body through and through. I've been lifting weights off and on for 30+ years. No one would ever say I look bulky. Slim, trim and fit.

mysteps2beauty

Doctors specialize. Like many professions. This means outside of their verified knowledge in their specific field they fall back on their long held views on things. I respect their medical opinions but unless they can back it up with sound scientific evidence, well, gonna consider your "opinions" with a grain of salt. That's why the medical community itself advises to get a 2nd, 3rd opinion. Don't be mad just get more info. I remember back 20 years ago asking about Brewers years and wheatgrass juice as nutrition for a pregnant mom and her growing fetus. He could not speak on it cause he did not know enough and said as much. Remember, the practice of medicine is just that....practice.

deputy_randolph

You're doctor is wrong and must get her fitness advice from the internet.

I lift heavy, competed in 3 powerlifting competitions. I'm a size 4....how could one be "bulky" at a size 4?

CharlieBeansmomTracey

HermanLily wrote: »

I'm a female on steroids for medical reasons, and to literally save my life and I can tell you this, i am far from bulky. I have a female body through and through. I've been lifting weights off and on for 30+ years. No one would ever say I look bulky. Slim, trim and fit.

steroids for health conditions are not the same as anabolic steroids that some take to gain mass.