Motivation for women to lift heavy

teenasbody
teenasbody Posts: 212 Member
edited December 2024 in Motivation and Support
ENJOY!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YIhKT-gzvU

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  • Qattusa
    Qattusa Posts: 139 Member
    Love it!!! I have starting my weight training, and enjoy every moment of it! Brilliant! x
  • 2012asv
    2012asv Posts: 702 Member
    Those women are my HEROS.
  • MissTattoo
    MissTattoo Posts: 1,203 Member
    Awesome!
  • Qattusa
    Qattusa Posts: 139 Member
    I wish more women did lifting. I always get looked at like I am a right wierdo when I go into the gym for a strength training session. Invariably I am the only girl there.
  • teenasbody
    teenasbody Posts: 212 Member
    I wish more women did lifting. I always get looked at like I am a right wierdo when I go into the gym for a strength training session. Invariably I am the only girl there.

    Yes me too! I hate it my boyfriend told me to go in the weight room like I own it and people will stop LOL

    He is going with me on Sat to show me how to have gym presence :-)

    I wont stop lifting I love it! It has changed my life
  • bcf7683
    bcf7683 Posts: 1,653 Member
    I wish more women did lifting. I always get looked at like I am a right wierdo when I go into the gym for a strength training session. Invariably I am the only girl there.

    Same thing here. I invited a few friends to come to the bodypump class that I do four days a week, when I was setting up my area with piles of weights, they looked at me like I had 15 heads. And then when we got to squats and I had 50 lbs on my bar and they had a measly 5 lbs., they just rolled their eyes.
    Better yet, they thought that it was completely fine to talk and laugh while they were supposed to be seriously working out. I love my friends, but that's the most I've ever been annoyed with them. They kept talking about how "big" the women were there (they weren't big, I guess they're just not used to seeing women with defined muscles instead of sticks for arms) and how stupid it was that we took the class to seriously. To top it off, my instructor knew I brought them, and he wasn't too happy with them distracting everyone else.

    Last time I extend an invitation.

    I'll let them stick with their "tough" yoga and step classes.
  • Qattusa
    Qattusa Posts: 139 Member

    Same thing here. I invited a few friends to come to the bodypump class that I do four days a week, when I was setting up my area with piles of weights, they looked at me like I had 15 heads. And then when we got to squats and I had 50 lbs on my bar and they had a measly 5 lbs., they just rolled their eyes.
    Better yet, they thought that it was completely fine to talk and laugh while they were supposed to be seriously working out. I love my friends, but that's the most I've ever been annoyed with them. They kept talking about how "big" the women were there (they weren't big, I guess they're just not used to seeing women with defined muscles instead of sticks for arms) and how stupid it was that we took the class to seriously. To top it off, my instructor knew I brought them, and he wasn't too happy with them distracting everyone else.

    Last time I extend an invitation.

    I'll let them stick with their "tough" yoga and step classes.

    Whoops, that's embarrassing! I once had a friend who poked me in the ribs when I was lifting with a barbell. I almost (unintentionally) killed her as my body instinctively swung around and swung the weights with it. The same (ex) friend came up to my threadmill whilst I was sprinting at my utmost and she hit the emergency stop button to have a conversation. I almost smacked my head on the machine. She always made fun of me going all out on the weights and machines too.

    Turns out this girl, who bless her, was quite obese, was trying her best to thwart my fitness regime as she was jealous I was doing so well. We are both in the military and she was getting in trouble for not being full fit and deployable.

    I learned not to take certain friends to the gym with me unless they were fitness freaks themselves too!
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