What the Gym Guy Says...

Hello - been on MFP for awhile but never posted before, just a lurker and a food tracker.

I have learned A LOT about women and lifting heavy on here. As a woman, I was excited to take what I had learned here and another popular body bullding site to the gym and get myself started lifting heavy.

In a general conversation with the owner of the gym, "gym guy", I made the mistake of telling him my plan to lift heavy and showed him my workout program which I had on paper. He looked it over, grimaced (a lot), and said "yeah, if you want to go for that big bulky look, go for it". Ugh!

Now, most everything I have read on many different sources states that lifting heavy as a woman does not make you bulky and to say otherwise, is incaccurate.. old school .. myth. Without sounding redundant, it takes more for a woman to actually bulk up which includes a major surplus in diet and even steroids or such as that.

Why oh why oh why are there so many "fitness professionals" out there that are still advocating for woman NOT to lift heavy? I mean, what really throws me through a tail spin of confusion is yes, I can read and read on the internet how lifting heavy isn't going to have a bulking up effect naturally and then a "fitness professional" that I can actually talk to face to face shoots that theory down? And, it's not just him.. it's his assistant who pushes that too. "Don't lift too heavy or you will bulk up..." Really makes it confusing..