What if someone notices how much bigger and stronger my right bicep is compared to my left?
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
I hear a lot of women with the fear of getting too bulky. As EyeDentist mentioned, I guess they imagine that they will wake up one morning and be irreversibly masculine. They’ve seen pictures of women who have clearly, to my eyes, been “enhanced” by anabolic steroids. I think this is really changing though, because there are now A LOT of young women training in my gym.
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Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women? lol
But most girls I’ve talked to about working out, have a huge fear of not doing cardio every day. They think they’ll get fat if they stop even for a day.[/quote]
Hey, seriously. There are A LOT of young chicks doing the compound lifts or spending time on the OLY platforms. I train at a university gym in SoCal.
Not fears, but these thing bug me.
Overuse of the word Cardio. If you are reading the newspaper on the stationary bike, or walking on a treadmill at a pace that you could keep up all day long, that is not cardio. It’s moving. It’s active. It’s good for you. It’s not cardio. Stop saying “doing cardio” when you aren’t even breaking a sweat.
I’m starting to hate the words “eating clean.” I eat clean because I buy the organic pop tarts at Trader Joes, or I don’t eat gluten, or my bacon cheeseburger is made from grass fed beef… It seems to mean something different to everybody.
Powerpuff, fully agree with your assessment of people on the dreadmill reading while doing “cardio”
If they knew what proper “CONDITIONING” was then they would be outside playing with my Prowler !
Huge difference between the two, and the results are shown in the “body” of work done.
As for eating clean, can we just put that to rest already ? Most on this site do that already and most of the general population as you alluded to does not. You can either wear your six-pack or you can drink it. It really is that simple.
Also words do matter. Remember that we should be Training, which has a Goal.
Working out is what 85-90% of the fitness center users do, which is why they have the bodies that they do…
If you have no direction as far as your training goes, well , then you end up with … crossfit.
Yeah, I just went there…
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
I hear a lot of women with the fear of getting too bulky. As EyeDentist mentioned, I guess they imagine that they will wake up one morning and be irreversibly masculine. They’ve seen pictures of women who have clearly, to my eyes, been “enhanced” by anabolic steroids. I think this is really changing though, because there are now A LOT of young women training in my gym.
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Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women? lol
But most girls I’ve talked to about working out, have a huge fear of not doing cardio every day. They think they’ll get fat if they stop even for a day.[/quote]
Hey, seriously. There are A LOT of young chicks doing the compound lifts or spending time on the OLY platforms. I train at a university gym in SoCal.
Not fears, but these thing bug me.
Overuse of the word Cardio. If you are reading the newspaper on the stationary bike, or walking on a treadmill at a pace that you could keep up all day long, that is not cardio. It’s moving. It’s active. It’s good for you. It’s not cardio. Stop saying “doing cardio” when you aren’t even breaking a sweat.
I’m starting to hate the words “eating clean.” I eat clean because I buy the organic pop tarts at Trader Joes, or I don’t eat gluten, or my bacon cheeseburger is made from grass fed beef… It seems to mean something different to everybody. [/quote]
Starting to think I went to the wrong school, lol. I trained at the weight room at the ARC at SDSU and it doesn’t have many chicks or OLY platforms.
What if my squats aren’t deep enough
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
I hear a lot of women with the fear of getting too bulky. As EyeDentist mentioned, I guess they imagine that they will wake up one morning and be irreversibly masculine. They’ve seen pictures of women who have clearly, to my eyes, been “enhanced” by anabolic steroids. I think this is really changing though, because there are now A LOT of young women training in my gym.
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Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women? lol
But most girls I’ve talked to about working out, have a huge fear of not doing cardio every day. They think they’ll get fat if they stop even for a day.[/quote]
Hey, seriously. There are A LOT of young chicks doing the compound lifts or spending time on the OLY platforms. I train at a university gym in SoCal.
Not fears, but these thing bug me.
Overuse of the word Cardio. If you are reading the newspaper on the stationary bike, or walking on a treadmill at a pace that you could keep up all day long, that is not cardio. It’s moving. It’s active. It’s good for you. It’s not cardio. Stop saying “doing cardio” when you aren’t even breaking a sweat.
I’m starting to hate the words “eating clean.” I eat clean because I buy the organic pop tarts at Trader Joes, or I don’t eat gluten, or my bacon cheeseburger is made from grass fed beef… It seems to mean something different to everybody. [/quote]
Starting to think I went to the wrong school, lol. I trained at the weight room at the ARC at SDSU and it doesn’t have many chicks or OLY platforms.[/quote]
Cezar, I’m not in SD but I’ve seen it change dramatically over the past 5 years. When I started lifting, I felt pretty self-conscious about often being the only woman in the free weight section. My gym went from having 3 racks and 2 Smith machines to having 4 racks, a dedicated DL platform with pins, 3 Smiths, and 2 OLY platforms.
[quote]killerDIRK wrote:
Powerpuff, fully agree with your assessment of people on the dreadmill reading while doing “cardio”
If they knew what proper “CONDITIONING” was then they would be outside playing with my Prowler !
Huge difference between the two, and the results are shown in the “body” of work done.
As for eating clean, can we just put that to rest already ? Most on this site do that already and most of the general population as you alluded to does not. You can either wear your six-pack or you can drink it. It really is that simple.
Also words do matter. Remember that we should be Training, which has a Goal.
Working out is what 85-90% of the fitness center users do, which is why they have the bodies that they do…
If you have no direction as far as your training goes, well , then you end up with … crossfit.
Yeah, I just went there…[/quote]
Hey, Dirk. I’m guilty of using “cardio” for anything that isn’t lifting myself but I’ve recently realized how silly it sounds. No point in saying “doing cardio” when you could just say “walking.” And I feel like cardio should get your heart rate up at least. I see a lot of people chatting with their friend every morning on the elliptical machines at a pace they could keep up ALL. DAY. LONG. It’s better than sitting for sure, but you’d hardly call it “training.” We’re allowed to be snobs about this stuff. 
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
[quote]Powerpuff wrote:
I hear a lot of women with the fear of getting too bulky. As EyeDentist mentioned, I guess they imagine that they will wake up one morning and be irreversibly masculine. They’ve seen pictures of women who have clearly, to my eyes, been “enhanced” by anabolic steroids. I think this is really changing though, because there are now A LOT of young women training in my gym.
[/quote]
Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women? lol
But most girls I’ve talked to about working out, have a huge fear of not doing cardio every day. They think they’ll get fat if they stop even for a day.[/quote]
Hey, seriously. There are A LOT of young chicks doing the compound lifts or spending time on the OLY platforms. I train at a university gym in SoCal.
Not fears, but these thing bug me.
Overuse of the word Cardio. If you are reading the newspaper on the stationary bike, or walking on a treadmill at a pace that you could keep up all day long, that is not cardio. It’s moving. It’s active. It’s good for you. It’s not cardio. Stop saying “doing cardio” when you aren’t even breaking a sweat.
I’m starting to hate the words “eating clean.” I eat clean because I buy the organic pop tarts at Trader Joes, or I don’t eat gluten, or my bacon cheeseburger is made from grass fed beef… It seems to mean something different to everybody. [/quote]
Starting to think I went to the wrong school, lol. I trained at the weight room at the ARC at SDSU and it doesn’t have many chicks or OLY platforms.[/quote]
Cezar, I’m not in SD but I’ve seen it change dramatically over the past 5 years. When I started lifting, I felt pretty self-conscious about often being the only woman in the free weight section. My gym went from having 3 racks and 2 Smith machines to having 4 racks, a dedicated DL platform with pins, 3 Smiths, and 2 OLY platforms.
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That’s a pretty sick gym. I train at a commercial gym now, it’s better than the school gym but doesn’t compare to that.
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women?
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every crossfit gym ever, most college gyms (although apparently not yours), and nearly every gym in California, Texas, and Florida.
I’ve been dealing with the fear of missing my opening squat this weekend, and basically being super weak at my meet because I’ve taken a week for rest/recovery. I don’t trust the process enough.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]CEZAR wrote:
Where is this magical gym with a lot of young women?
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every crossfit gym ever, most college gyms (although apparently not yours), and nearly every gym in California, Texas, and Florida.
I’ve been dealing with the fear of missing my opening squat this weekend, and basically being super weak at my meet because I’ve taken a week for rest/recovery. I don’t trust the process enough.
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I try to not hate on crossfit for that reason, it got girls to lift weights. The weight room at school may not have had many chicks but had 10 benches(6 flat, 2 decline, 2 incline) with frat boys doing 135 and 185 partial benches. The cardio area is where the girls were but due to my fear of losing my gainz, I never ventured there other than walking by on the way to the locker room.
I think alot of us have that fear of getting weaker when not lifting. Even though we all know “you don’t grow in the gym”.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
I’ve been dealing with the fear of missing my opening squat this weekend, and basically being super weak at my meet because I’ve taken a week for rest/recovery. I don’t trust the process enough.
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I love how light everything feels after a deload. I know it doesn’t really help to tell you to trust the process … so I won’t.
[quote]Dr J wrote:
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
I’ve been dealing with the fear of missing my opening squat this weekend, and basically being super weak at my meet because I’ve taken a week for rest/recovery. I don’t trust the process enough.
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I love how light everything feels after a deload. I know it doesn’t really help to tell you to trust the process … so I won’t.[/quote]
I wanted to lift yesterday just to confirm that my lifts are still what they’re supposed to be. But I restrained myself. I do trust the process at least enough to do the things I’m supposed to do. I almost always hit a deadlift PR, or at least a big number, after a deload.
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
[quote]Dr J wrote:
[quote]flipcollar wrote:
I’ve been dealing with the fear of missing my opening squat this weekend, and basically being super weak at my meet because I’ve taken a week for rest/recovery. I don’t trust the process enough.
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I love how light everything feels after a deload. I know it doesn’t really help to tell you to trust the process … so I won’t.[/quote]
I wanted to lift yesterday just to confirm that my lifts are still what they’re supposed to be. But I restrained myself. I do trust the process at least enough to do the things I’m supposed to do. I almost always hit a deadlift PR, or at least a big number, after a deload.[/quote]
Deadlift PR’s ROCK!! I don’t know if deadlift is more “primal” or if I just suck at deadlifting, but those PR’s always seem the most difficult and, therefore the most satisfying.