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    Lifting is "bad for you"

    Posts: 358 Member
    edited February 28 in Fitness and Exercise
    OK, so this is one I haven't heard before. I just started reading "New Rules for Women" and realized that once I really seriously get started lifting that the weights I have at home are probably not going to cut it. So until I have the funds to build up our home gym, I'm going to have to suck it up and hit the gym. I have a "friend" on Facebook that is really fit, and she is so well defined that I honestly assumed that she lifts, so I messaged her and asked her where she goes since the weight room at my local rec center is pretty small and typically overrun. Her response was that lifting is bad for you because it shrinks your arteries. :huh:

    I have heard all of the "you'll get bulky", "you'll look like a man" crap before, but I honestly had never heard this one before.

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    • Posts: 16,913 Member
      Everything is bad for you.
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      Your friend doesn't lift but she's an expert on the effects of lifting on the body?

      Do not listen to that friend.
    • Posts: 516 Member
      That's funny considering how many body builders are very vascular.
    • Posts: 999 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 34,971 Member
      Your friend doesn't lift but she's an expert on the effects of lifting on the body?

      Do not listen to that friend.

      ^This
    • Posts: 358 Member
      Your friend doesn't lift but she's an expert on the effects of lifting on the body?

      Do not listen to that friend.

      I don't plan on it, lol.
    • Posts: 2,093 Member
      Wow, unfriend her immediately. LOL
    • Posts: 1,238 Member
      How the heck does it shrink the arteries?
    • Posts: 418 Member
      This will cheer you up. :smile:

      http://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahbass/do-you-even-lift-bro
    • Posts: 423 Member
      The more time passes, the more studies and information comes out about how good weightlifting is for you. Not surprising, given how much we likely had to do it in ye olden times.
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
      That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard ever...
    • Posts: 270 Member
      I think people just make excuses not to lift because it requires effort.
    • Posts: 17,525 Member
      Find new friends who lift.

      life is instantly better.
    • Posts: 9,377 Member
      A friend just tried to talk me out of lifting, because when your muscles get big, they pull away from the joints. What?!
    • Posts: 3,783 Member
      Everything is bad for you.

      Yes, we're all gonna die.
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
      A friend just tried to talk me out of lifting, because when your muscles get big, they pull away from the joints. What?!

      *snort

      That's just...

      *snort
    • Posts: 16,356 Member
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      I don't plan on it, lol.

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      GL with the lifting! I love it and I hope you find you love it too!
    • Posts: 4,955 Member
      That ranks up there with my doctor telling me not to lift because it will cause long term increases in blood pressure.

      Not the normal rise mid-set, but permanent.
    • Posts: 358 Member
      That's one of the most stupid things I've ever heard ever...

      That was my exact reaction, lol. I didn't want to get into it with her so I just thanked her for the gym recommendation and left it at that.
    • Posts: 1,535 Member
      http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/1367122-15-thigs-girls-who-lift-are-tired-of-hearing

      I think your "fit" friend is doing her "fitness" in other forms. :laugh: :laugh:
    • Posts: 349 Member
      "If you think lifting weights is dangerous, try being weak. Being weak is dangerous." - Bret Contreras
    • Posts: 358 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 4,366 Member
      I had to Google it. Found this:

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

      Gotta love the internet. :laugh:
    • Posts: 352 Member
      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!
    • Posts: 2,107 Member
      What a way to go. :wink:

      And we're all gonna die sometime, someway.

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

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

      :heart:
    • Posts: 2,303 Member
      :noway:
    • Posts: 352 Member
      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
    • Posts: 15,267 Member
      I have been told my uterus will go all wonky and that my bladder will fall...but this is a new one.
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