Women. What do weights scare you so much?!
Question: This question is for the women (sorry guys).
Why is it that when a woman trains at the gym, she allows herself to get a mental block or unwarranted fear about lifting heavy weight? Let me explain.
I am a personal trainer and one problem I seem to encounter often is that many women are afraid to lift heavier than usual weight. Very rarely do I see a woman bench pressing 50 lb dumbbells or challenging her legs with 45 lb plates on each side. Why is that? What is it about heavy weight that deters you?
Realistically speaking, if you cant raise 30 lbs over your head, and you have a 3 year old child, are you really getting the most out of play time with your kid?
Please answer the ones that apply to you and feel free to add any reasons that you wish to share?
Answers: This question is for the women (sorry guys).
Why is it that when a woman trains at the gym, she allows herself to get a mental block or unwarranted fear about lifting heavy weight? Let me explain.
I am a personal trainer and one problem I seem to encounter often is that many women are afraid to lift heavier than usual weight. Very rarely do I see a woman bench pressing 50 lb dumbbells or challenging her legs with 45 lb plates on each side. Why is that? What is it about heavy weight that deters you?
Realistically speaking, if you cant raise 30 lbs over your head, and you have a 3 year old child, are you really getting the most out of play time with your kid?
Please answer the ones that apply to you and feel free to add any reasons that you wish to share?
I like a good challenge so weight lifting doesn't bother me. I do think, however, that a lot of women tend to think that the heavier the weight the bulkier the muscle will be. Women don't typically want big bulging biceps, it's just not attractive. I do agree with you that if you can't lift your child you really can't get the most out of play time because no matter how old you children get the expect their mommy to be able to pick them up when they fall.
Bench pressing 50 pound dumbbells is alot different than raising 30 pounds over your head.
I have no fear of weight training, and I do lift but at 5'4" and 115 pounds I feel absolutely no need to compete with men who are twice my size.
For me, when i go to the gym, i usually see guys and no one but guys in the weights/heavy lifting section. i am scared to lift a weight because, against them, the muscly guys who are twice the size of me, i look like a weakling. Men are usually stronger in building muscle anyway, and i look pretty silly if im struggling to lift a 30 kg weight while the guy next to me raise a 40 kg weight over his head in no seconds flat.
Its not that im scared or anything... maybe intimadated? I dont know, there are just other things to do, as some women find the gym pretty intimidating. And also, maybe its deters some of us because alot of us (including me) are drama queens... its alot of work to lift a weight you know. And we do alot of other things in a day that cause us to be tired in the long run.
i want to be fit not look like im on steriods
If you try to deprive your body of food then it will begin to refuse to let any weight go. Even if you begin eating your body may have already adapted to holding onto calories.
People who eat lots=release more. Go figure.
I think girls just have this idea that lifting weights is for guys. I goto my gym and do heaps of cardio because i want to lose weight and get toned and i do my little weights circuit in the ladies only section but the little ones not the big guys ones because i know my circuit will help me get more toned, i dont want to have muscles
that tons of weight is going to fall on us and crush us.