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Sassy69
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Just a happy little experience to relate today!
I was just finishing up my AM cardio & this lady was in the locker room asking if I had just done the aerobics class. I said no, I personally hate aerobics & classes in general. I just lift & do cardio. So she said she had just been seriously doing cardio since last Monday but wanted to wait to start lifting. She said she was concerned about getting "big" and just wanted to "tone. I had to stifle a laugh because the lady is not fat, but she's got some chunk on her. She says her arms are already big. Um.. hon, that's fat, not muscle.
Anyway, I showed her my guns and said that's the result of 21 years of serious training and they still aren't *that* big. So I basically said that just the act of lifting weights will not make her big.
So we're walking out the door to the gym together and she stops off at the front desk and proceeds to make an appt w/ one of the trainers to set up a good lifting routine for her.
KEWL! She was all pumped up about starting lifting. I told her to not be afraid of lifting heavy and to go for it.
Also I'm going back to the gym tonite w/ the original source of New's post about "Why Women Need Weight Training" - I'm going to suggest that they post information such as this first to get more women to lift weights and also to help increase the traffic to their trainers. My gym has lots of older people and lazy people who need to know that they should lift and not be afraid of it. Who knows -- maybe I can get a commission or something
For those interested, the original source of New's post is:
http://www.ideafit.com/ftwomen.htm
Or at least it will cut down on the number of imbeciles I see loading up the leg press w/the 5 lb weights and tellign me they are "going for reps, not weight". GAWWWWWD I HATE THEM.
I was just finishing up my AM cardio & this lady was in the locker room asking if I had just done the aerobics class. I said no, I personally hate aerobics & classes in general. I just lift & do cardio. So she said she had just been seriously doing cardio since last Monday but wanted to wait to start lifting. She said she was concerned about getting "big" and just wanted to "tone. I had to stifle a laugh because the lady is not fat, but she's got some chunk on her. She says her arms are already big. Um.. hon, that's fat, not muscle.
Anyway, I showed her my guns and said that's the result of 21 years of serious training and they still aren't *that* big. So I basically said that just the act of lifting weights will not make her big.
So we're walking out the door to the gym together and she stops off at the front desk and proceeds to make an appt w/ one of the trainers to set up a good lifting routine for her.
KEWL! She was all pumped up about starting lifting. I told her to not be afraid of lifting heavy and to go for it.
Also I'm going back to the gym tonite w/ the original source of New's post about "Why Women Need Weight Training" - I'm going to suggest that they post information such as this first to get more women to lift weights and also to help increase the traffic to their trainers. My gym has lots of older people and lazy people who need to know that they should lift and not be afraid of it. Who knows -- maybe I can get a commission or something
For those interested, the original source of New's post is:
http://www.ideafit.com/ftwomen.htm
Or at least it will cut down on the number of imbeciles I see loading up the leg press w/the 5 lb weights and tellign me they are "going for reps, not weight". GAWWWWWD I HATE THEM.
