A New Reason Women Shouldn't Lift?

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  • KindleKate
    KindleKate Posts: 24 Member
    For your friend. Knowledge is power - http://www.bboyscience.com/strength-training/
  • ironanimal
    ironanimal Posts: 5,922 Member
    You can bet your *kitten* that was printed in a women's magazine somewhere because they've seen some of their old myths dispelled and - OH NOES - women are starting to get in the gym and get all sweaty and disgusting in the weights area alongside the men.
  • MexicanOsmosis
    MexicanOsmosis Posts: 382 Member
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  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    I probably would have laughed in her face before I could catch myself. Psssh.

    Seriously. I snarfed all over my monitor just reading it! :laugh:
  • InsolentMint
    InsolentMint Posts: 48
    That sounds like an uninformed person who was taught sexism at an early age and doesn't workout very often.

    So, don't listen to them... lol. I hate people like that feed these stereotypes. I am struggling to get my gf to see the benefits of strength training right now, and it is crap like this that makes it so hard! Even Jillian Michaels who is really well respected touts this no strength training approach. It's crap! :(


    Really, she does? Alright never buying one of her ever popular dvds then.
  • ttippie2000
    ttippie2000 Posts: 412 Member
    Some of those Victorian era myths of women being weak have a basis in reality. But first you have to remember that a Victorian era fashions produced exactly the stereo type that they were looking for. A Victorian era lady frequently was wearing 70-100 pounds of clothes including a steel hoop skirt and a bone corset that dug into their abdomens. No wonder they suffered from shortness of breath, weakness, dizziness and worse. (Clinical data showed evidence of muscle atrophy and even organ damage from brutally tight corsets.)

    Methinks that says a lot less about women than it does about how screwed up Victorian era attitudes were towards women.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    We have weak hearts? Really? it's a wonder we survive childbirth at all.

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  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    I lifted the milk jug this morning and had a heart attack.

    Doooooooooooomed.
  • LilRedRooster
    LilRedRooster Posts: 1,421 Member
    Women also shouldn't run because their uterus could fall out. Haven't you seen the trails of uteri just lying around at marathon race courses? It's a terrible pandemic, really.
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    Women also shouldn't run because their uterus could fall out. Haven't you seen the trails of uteri just lying around at marathon race courses? It's a terrible pandemic, really.

    innit

    and doctors offices are heaving with women carrying their uteri in the hope that the doctors can put them back in again....
  • sarajcurrie
    sarajcurrie Posts: 11
    I think you'll find womans hearts are stronger than mens and this is down to necessity because woman carry their babies and give birth!
  • Iron_Lotus
    Iron_Lotus Posts: 2,295 Member
    WOW!
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,329 Member
    your friend is probably right. i frequently find myself catching the vapors when i deadlift.
  • bumblebums
    bumblebums Posts: 2,181 Member
    Right. Is that why men are having more heart attacks then?

    http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=724485

    In both epochs, men aged 35 to 54 years had a higher prevalence of MI [myocardial infarction] than similarly aged women, but the gap narrowed in recent years as MI prevalence decreased among men and increased among women (2.5% vs 0.7% in NHANES 1988-1994 [P < .01] and 2.2% vs 1.0% in NHANES 1999-2004 [P < .01]). Among men, the mean FCRS showed an improving trend (8.6% in NHANES 1988-1994 vs 8.1% in NHANES 1999-2004 [P = .07]), while among women, the mean FCRS worsened (3.0% in NHANES 1988-1994 vs 3.3% in NHANES 1999-2004 [P = .02]). Temporal trends in FCRS components revealed that men had more improvements in vascular risk factors than women, but diabetes mellitus prevalence increased in both sexes.
  • megsmom2
    megsmom2 Posts: 2,362 Member
    weak hearts? we give birth, for heaven's sake. if that isn't hard work I don't know what is!
  • u_mad_bro
    u_mad_bro Posts: 42 Member
    I never walk up a flight of stairs without a male companion, out of fear that my heart might just explode. Rough sex is also a no-no. I am a delicate flower.
  • Morninglory81
    Morninglory81 Posts: 1,190 Member
    Those who won't do for themselves, will find excuses for why it is not their fault.
  • littlepinkhearts
    littlepinkhearts Posts: 1,055 Member
    yes, yes i have a weak heart, which is why my knees go weak when i'm around pie haha
  • littlepinkhearts
    littlepinkhearts Posts: 1,055 Member
    I never walk up a flight of stairs without a male companion, out of fear that my heart might just explode. Rough sex is also a no-no. I am a delicate flower.

    hahaha love it!!
  • Yanicka1
    Yanicka1 Posts: 4,564 Member
    Mouahahahaha



    Sorry


    Take breath and wipe tear
  • ihad
    ihad Posts: 7,463 Member
    I was talking about exercising with an acquaintance of mine, and I told her that I lift heavy. She said that she heard women should never lift heavy because we have weak hearts. WTH? I have no intentions of stopping lifting, but has anyone else ever heard that?

    I believe the proper response is:

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  • RunnerElizabeth
    RunnerElizabeth Posts: 1,091 Member
    Well we have proportionally smaller hearts then men, but it doesn't make our hearts weak.

    Lift heavy things and run and jump. Our bodies were made to move!

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