THE BENEFITS I GET FROM LIFTING! Lifting weights as a woman gets a bad rep. Many shy away from it because they worry that if they lift they will look too manly. Instead they focus on cardio. While women fight to become skinnier, many don’t push to become stronger. The number on the scale is still seen as the ultimate goal. It’s unfortunate for a lot of reasons, one being that lifting can have amazing physical and mental benefits. Lifting weights increases your metabolic rate and keeps it raised long after the activity is completed My experience weight/resistance training, lifting has had many evolutions. I sprint swim at age 14 in college and the workouts I despised the most were not sprints or endurance training, it was the weight room, pathetically mimicking the boys competitve swim team that I found painfully dreadful. After college I changed my mind about the weight room and made a greater effort at lifting, vaguely repeating the same bicep curls from my swim training days and for the most part being the only girl in the weight room. My weight lifting evolved a bit more after college when I was forced to actually have a gym membership, to a brand-new gym with shiny equipment, a female population, and more educated people. I realized, I had options; resistance training, weight lifting was not as cookie cutter, bulk inducing, and boring as I had believed. My last evolution came when I met my trainer who led me through such challenging workouts that I can proudly admit that swimming has been bumped down from its pinnacle to second place, behind resistance training and weight lifting. I have overcome shoulder injuries,(interstitial tear in the rotator cuff shoulder area) ,prepared for dance group competitions and its afterthoughts. I refined how I use and move my body in daily activities, as well as developed a deeper respect for how powerful, awe-inspiring and enduring my female body truly is! I LIVE TO LIFT! INCREDIBLE CHNAGE HAPPENS WHEN YOU DECIDE TO TAKE CONTROL! You will be surprised at what you can ACCOMPLISH! Just wanted to share, inspire and MOTIVATE to a NEW YOU!!!!!
Posted on: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 05:09:01 +0000
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