Lifting is "bad for you"

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  • 13suzie
    13suzie Posts: 349 Member
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    "If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous." - Bret Contreras
  • chrissyrenee1029
    chrissyrenee1029 Posts: 358 Member
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    How the heck does it shrink the arteries?

    That's exactly what I wanted to know...and this girl is a nurse! Kind of scary, tbh, lol.
  • klkarlen
    klkarlen Posts: 4,366 Member
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    I had to Google it. Found this:

    http://www.peaktestosterone.com/Weight_Lifting_Arteries.aspx

    Gotta love the internet. :laugh:
  • aliakynes
    aliakynes Posts: 352 Member
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    Haha, that's a new one for me. She must be blessed with some serious genetics to believe that and look as good as you say!
  • gypsy_spirit
    gypsy_spirit Posts: 2,107 Member
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    What a way to go. :wink:

    And we're all gonna die sometime, someway.

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  • Achrya
    Achrya Posts: 16,913 Member
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    "If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous." - Bret Contreras

    Preach and testify!
  • __freckles__
    __freckles__ Posts: 1,238 Member
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    "If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous." - Bret Contreras

    :heart:
  • AsaThorsWoman
    AsaThorsWoman Posts: 2,303 Member
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    :noway:
  • aliakynes
    aliakynes Posts: 352 Member
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    My mom told me I shouldn't lift heavy weights because one time in the 80's crocodile dundee was bench pressing like 350 and had an aneurysm.

    I would have an aneurism too if I tried to bench a crocodile. /joke
  • SezxyStef
    SezxyStef Posts: 15,268 Member
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    I have been told my uterus will go all wonky and that my bladder will fall...but this is a new one.
  • chrissyrenee1029
    chrissyrenee1029 Posts: 358 Member
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    Haha, that's a new one for me. She must be blessed with some serious genetics to believe that and look as good as you say!

    She really must because I have to say, she looks amazing. According to her she does a lot of zumba and kickboxing.
  • Serah87
    Serah87 Posts: 5,481 Member
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    Everything is bad for you.

    Yes, we're all gonna die.

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  • Barbellarella_
    Barbellarella_ Posts: 454 Member
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    That's blasphemy.
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,662 Member
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    Haha, that's a new one for me. She must be blessed with some serious genetics to believe that and look as good as you say!

    She really must because I have to say, she looks amazing. According to her she does a lot of zumba and kickboxing.

    do you only know her on facebook? or have you met this person IRL?
  • _KitKat_
    _KitKat_ Posts: 1,066 Member
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    I have been told my uterus will go all wonky and that my bladder will fall...but this is a new one.

    I was recently reading that squats may help increase tension and better strengthen your pelvic floor then kegels. So lifting may benefit women'sinternal organs and bladder control. For men it can help relieve ppressure on the prostate. No clue if studies or what not but good counter argument.


    As for arteries..... WTH!?!!

    Worst I have got is the basic "you'll get bulky if you lift heavy" husband backed off and now realizes the truth but the trainer at my gym still recommends 20 or more reps per set at light weight whenever he sees me. He can kiss off.
  • allaboutthecake
    allaboutthecake Posts: 1,531 Member
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    Haha, that's a new one for me. She must be blessed with some serious genetics to believe that and look as good as you say!

    She really must because I have to say, she looks amazing. According to her she does a lot of zumba and kickboxing.

    Kickboxing is a full-body workout. Imagine how hard those kicks would be if #1 she lifted and #2 they landed on a perv :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • ItsMeGee3
    ItsMeGee3 Posts: 13,254 Member
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    My husband doesn't particularly like me lifting. TOO BAD. Come to think of it, He doesn't like me running either.

    Every time he reads something negative about either. He forwards it to me. He says he's concerned about my health. Hmmmm?
  • jgaleazza
    jgaleazza Posts: 5 Member
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    Nonesense. People will rationalize anything. I once overhear two women on the treadmill beside me talk about how doing cardio first and then weights was the best way to lose weight because they watched a youtube video of some woman who did that and lost "like 75 lbs". I didn't have the heart to tell them that most studies show that doing weights first (thus using up your energy stores) actually gets your metabolism going and then doing cardio makes the body access it's fat reserves.
  • amusedmonkey
    amusedmonkey Posts: 10,330 Member
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    Lifting is bad for ME because I have back issues, but that's a new one..

    Some of the things I heard when I said I was interested in lifting (before I was told I couldn't) that lifting would do away with my boobs, make my uterus fall out, give me a manly jaw, and make me grow dark body hair.
  • QueenBishOTUniverse
    QueenBishOTUniverse Posts: 14,121 Member
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    So far my husband's only complaint about weight lifting is that I can now successfully break his grip. :bigsmile:

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