I am the woman in the freeweights section of the gym
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Excellent post! ♥0
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I am a female lifter I started mid november and love it (and love cardio classes too). I squatted 175 lbs yesterday (I'm 5'8 131sh) so maybe I will be squatting comparable weights of the men soon0
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LOVE LOVE this!!!! Hope all my friends read this!!!!! Thanks for the info....grabbing that book this week!!!!0
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Love this! I am lucky enough where there are just as much women as men in the free weights. A fact I didn't even notice until I got over myself and started lifting.0
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Bump...love this and would like to keep it in mind.
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AWESOME POST! :flowerforyou: :drinker:0
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Thank you for posting this! I will say that my "fear" of doing free weights is not so much because mostly men are over there (I was in the Marines for 5 years!) but that I am the biggest klutz in the world and I can injure myself doing just about anything lol. I used my "intro" personal training session to have the guy show me some free weight exercises today and it was awesome, I feel like I got a GREAT workout whereas before the machines were not doing crap for me.0
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Love this. Thank you for posting. I am REALLY hesitant to go over there.....I need a good resource to read first so I know what I am doing! I didn't want to pay for a trainer.0
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Wow thanks everyone! My thread got stickied! How cool!
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I just noticed that! Nice work, girl!0 -
I guess it depends on the gym. I have actually not found that there are a dearth of women. But I am mostly having experience with university weight rooms where there are many women athletes.0
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I'm usually the only one as well. Minus the gaggle of girls squatting 20 lbs on the smith machine.
Weight shaming? And how do you know that is only 20lbs?0 -
I'm usually the only one as well. Minus the gaggle of girls squatting 20 lbs on the smith machine.
Weight shaming? And how do you know that is only 20lbs?
I'm going to guess by looking at the weights, or lack there of? I don't now about you but when I see a five pound plate and a five pound plate, I'm generally about to add that up.0 -
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There are quite a few women at my gym who do free weights too. Not as many as the guys, maybe like 25/75. The rest are on the treadmill, elliptical or stairmaster for HOURS! I won't judge someone for how they want to exercise but I personally would be so miserable if I did that0
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Lifting free weights is the gold standard if you have body building aspirations but to lose weight and retain muscle and optimize bone health, there are many options.
"The best exercise for your bones is the weight-bearing kind, which forces you to work against gravity. Some examples of weight-bearing exercises include weight training, walking, hiking, jogging, climbing stairs, tennis, and dancing. Examples of exercises that are not weight-bearing include swimming and bicycling.
http://www.niams.nih.gov/health_Info/Bone/Bone_Health/Exercise/default.asp
"VARIOUS TYPES OF RESISTANCES
Resistance training can be accomplished
with traditional free weights and
dumbbells, weight machines, body weight,
elastic tubing, medicine balls, or even
common household products like milk jugs
filled with sand or soup cans. The choice
to incorporate a certain type of resistance
depends on level of physical fitness, how
familiar a person is with specific exercise
movements, and individual goals. For
example, low fit individuals can focus
primarily on machine-based exercises as
they have been regarded as safer to use
compared to more complex free weight
exercises. The incorporation of free weight
movements can be performed as a person
increases his or her muscular fitness."
http://www.acsm.org/docs/brochures/resistance-training.pdf0 -
The first time was awful I felt so intimidated it was truly ridiculous, so I had a word with myself....second time wasn't so bad. Now I couldn't care less0
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