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What drives me insane is when women refuse to lift because they "Don't want to get huge muscles"... Look lady, I lift all the time and you would probably think I don't lift at all. You're not going to acquire giant bodybuilder muscles with light lifting a couple days a week.
My wife probably gets mad at me for always asking, but I'm always interested to hear if she used any weights in her exercises (we go to the gym at separate times), because that's where she's going to get her nice, shapely legs and butt, and arms. I would love to see her trainer get her into some real weight training, because I think she would really start to see a difference in her body. Right now, she's doing a lot of cardio, and core. I can see that she's losing some weight, but she hasn't really been putting a lot of effort into the weight training.
My wife probably gets mad at me for always asking, but I'm always interested to hear if she used any weights in her exercises (we go to the gym at separate times), because that's where she's going to get her nice, shapely legs and butt, and arms. I would love to see her trainer get her into some real weight training, because I think she would really start to see a difference in her body. Right now, she's doing a lot of cardio, and core. I can see that she's losing some weight, but she hasn't really been putting a lot of effort into the weight training.
Yup! I am the same way with my girlfriend. She complains about her arms being "flabby" yet refuses to lift weights. She does do walking lunges with weights though so her butt and thighs are very thin and muscular. So I shut up and stop complaining.
Yup! I am the same way with my girlfriend. She complains about her arms being "flabby" yet refuses to lift weights. She does do walking lunges with weights though so her butt and thighs are very thin and muscular. So I shut up and stop complaining.
My wife probably gets mad at me for always asking, but I'm always interested to hear if she used any weights in her exercises (we go to the gym at separate times), because that's where she's going to get her nice, shapely legs and butt, and arms. I would love to see her trainer get her into some real weight training, because I think she would really start to see a difference in her body. Right now, she's doing a lot of cardio, and core. I can see that she's losing some weight, but she hasn't really been putting a lot of effort into the weight training.
LOL @ core exercises, one of the biggest rip-offs marketed to women ever in the history of fitness. Not quite as big of a rip-off as passive exercise machines or "fat burning" belts, but still pretty high up there.
LOL @ core exercises, one of the biggest rip-offs marketed to women ever in the history of fitness. Not quite as big of a rip-off as passive exercise machines or "fat burning" belts, but still pretty high up there.
You may not understand what the term "core workout" really means then. We're not talking about just doing leg lifts and crunches. Core workouts can still be weight training workouts, using compound movements that focuses on the core. It is geared more toward those who cannot do squats or uncomfortable doing dead lifts and bench pressing. While those exercises, done correctly, will work the abs as a secondary or tertiary muscle group, not everyone can do those exercises, at least not in the beginning. You DO have to have a strong core to do those compound movements correctly. So, I'm not sure I would laugh at the thought of core exercises, especially when we're not just talking about abs.
Unrealistic expectations?
When bodybuilders say "...it's so much hard work that we put into this, so much sacrifice" expecting people to pay tribute to their endevour as if people really had to.
No, bodybuilding is a very personal individualistic endevour that you yourself engage in out of free will. It has zero or almost no impact on other people or community compared to being a teacher, nurse or someone who cleans the streets whose jobs actually have an evident impact on other people or the community.
Obviously, not all bodybuilders are of this mindset, but some are.
LOL @ core exercises, one of the biggest rip-offs marketed to women ever in the history of fitness. Not quite as big of a rip-off as passive exercise machines or "fat burning" belts, but still pretty high up there.
Unrealistic expectations?
When bodybuilders say "...it's so much hard work that we put into this, so much sacrifice" expecting people to pay tribute to their endevour as if people really had to.
No, bodybuilding is a very personal individualistic endevour that you yourself engage in out of free will. It has zero or almost no impact on other people or community compared to being a teacher, nurse or someone who cleans the streets whose jobs actually have an evident impact on other people or the community.
Obviously, not all bodybuilders are of this mindset, but some are.
Did a bodybuilder steal your prom date? For someone with seemingly so little use for bodybuilders you sure seem to weigh in on the bodybuilding threads a lot.
Did a bodybuilder steal your prom date? For someone with seemingly so little use for bodybuilders you sure seem to weigh in on the bodybuilding threads a lot.
Does a bodybuilder have to do something to me in order to notice this mindset?
I'm sorry if it bothers you but you have to deal with opinions that don't suit your taste.
As I said, it is not all of them, but some have go around with this rhetoric.
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