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By: Core CrossFit Downtown Phoenix Arizona » Blog Archive » October 1st, 2009

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:09:04 +0000

[...] Article “But I Don’t Want to Get Bulky” [...]

By: Thursday 9/10/09 « Get up, get fit!

Thursday 9/10/09 « Get up, get fit! — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:37:14 +0000

[...] Read the full article here. [...]

By: John Peden

John Peden — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:09:15 +0000

Thanks Mark, I’ve been trying to argue this point with my girlfriend who has been told by everyone (surprisingly) to do high reps and low weight.

By: July 26th | Roaring Fork Crossfit

July 26th | Roaring Fork Crossfit — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:09:54 +0000

[...] Women need to train the same way men do This entry was posted on Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 9:50 pmand is filed under WOD. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. [...]

By: CrossFit 1776 - Forging Elite Fitness in Williamsburg, VA » July 25, 2009

CrossFit 1776 - Forging Elite Fitness in Williamsburg, VA » July 25, 2009 — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:42:43 +0000

[...] Primal Strength Training for Women: Not So Different at All [...]

By: Instant Health Fitness » Blog Archive » Primal Strength Training for Women: Not So Different After All

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:01:29 +0000

[...] Primal Strength Training for Women: Not So Different After All If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my weekly newsletter. Thanks for visiting! I knew they were coming, as soon as I hit “Publish.” I knew I’d get at least one or two comments from our female readers asking if last week’s muscle building post applied to them, too. You see, Conventional Wisdom has somehow drilled into our heads the silly notion that men and women are completely different species, especially when it comes to working out. There are definite differences – anyone who’s been married will be able to tell you that! – but that doesn’t take away from the fact that we’re all homo sapiens with the same basic physiological makeup. And so an outfit like Weight Watchers will push the chronic cardio, the ankle weights, and the step classes because of some underlying, self-defeating assumption that women aren’t “meant” to lift heavy weights. It’s insane, it’s preposterous, and it’s downright insulting. Men and women have different work capacities and different natural inclinations, but their bodies still work the same way. “But I don’t want to get big and bulky!” That’s another common one, and I can’t really blame them. Have you ever seen a women’s bodybuilding competition, especially one where the drug testing bodies are asleep at the wheel? Those women are frightening and incredibly ripped (for my money, the dudes look just as freakish), but more importantly, they just don’t look right. In fact, this is one area in which the underlying gender-specific physiology is limiting (thank god!): women, being testicle-free, do not produce enough natural testosterone to get those bulging pecs (just where do the breasts go, anyway?) and engorged thighs without supplementing with steroids (synthetic testosterone, essentially). Men generally do produce enough natural testosterone (the ultimate muscle-building hormone) to get big, and most of us still have trouble building a significant amount of muscle. Just imagine how difficult it is to bulk up for a woman. [...]

By: 090723 THURSDAY

090723 THURSDAY — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:30:18 +0000

[...] Strength Training for Women: Not So Different After All - I knew they were coming, as soon as I hit “Publish.” I knew I’d get at least one or two comments from our female readers asking if last week’s muscle building post applied to them, too. You see, conventional wisdom…(continue reading) [...]

By: la nina

la nina — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:45:30 +0000

Hi, I have done WeightWatchers and while I don’t agree with their nutritional advice, they were always supportive of weight lifting and told us it would boost our ability to burn fat.

But I do agree that there are social pressures against women lifting hard. I do my Oly lifting at a big box gym where the vast majority of men seem to be appalled that a woman is lifting heavy weights and give me nasty looks all the time (probably because my lifts are often heavier than what they are doing). The only guys who are supportive are my husband and the gym trainers, who think I’m awesome. I don’t think I would continue without their support.

I miss having a CrossFit affiliate.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:49:13 +0000

Rock on CrossFit Women. You look fantastic! Great to see you waving the flag for fit, strong, healthy women.

I am a CrossFit Women – and CrossFit Affiliate in Auckland (Albany) New Zealand. 16 years in the industry, I think I’ve heard every ‘reason’ and explanation for women being frightened of strength training – or weights training.

Thank you Mark for sending me the link to this fantastic article. I was really impressed with the videos of the lightest weight class. And…in all honesty, before becoming a CrossFitter, I would never have known or beleived that women can make such rapid progress in strength and skill capability, and still look femanine while toned and athletic.

All fellas out there, keep encouraging your beautiful ladies to train full body functional exercises with weights. Its like medicine for the body!!

By: Dutch Leftern

Dutch Leftern — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:06:39 +0000

Here is an amazingly written article from the Again Faster crew.
Ladies, give it a read and know that there are a host of men who whole-heartedly agree.

http://againfaster.squarespace.com/articles/you-are-beautiful.html