Beauty, Being Skinny, and Bulking Up

At least they get it!!

On Warped Beauty Standards, and Embracing the Buff - BlogHer.com

Strong Is the New Skinny

We hear it at the gym from a good portion of our new females, "I tend to bulk up easily!"
"I'm afraid of looking like a guy!" "I don't want to lift heavy weights!"

After a few weeks at the gym with us these comments tend to fall to the wayside, but there is always a new group of women to express the same concern. It doesn't matter how often we try to encourage lifting and convince them otherwise. At least not at first anyway.

Just about all of our female membership (I can't think of any ladies of hand) have realized that they aren't going to end up looking like a dude by lifting heavier than normal weights. They understand the factors that are involved with bulking up and understand that they aren't following any of them.

They're also happy to see the weights that they can move going up every time that lift is revisited. They brag about it on Facebook or pull me or one of the trainers aside and point it out!
They even tell their girlfriends about it. I'm sure these friends offer the same initial argument.

I applaud any female who has cast out inaccuracies, falsehoods, and dogma surrounding weightlifting. Those who have realized that the obvious benefits of greater strength, leaner body, increased fitness, and heightened sense of self-esteem far outweigh the possible side-effect of "looking dudeish" are well ahead of the curve.

Upcoming Events

I've had a good amount of response in regards to the SkyZone outing, albeit verbally. Because we need a final head count before we book that date, be sure to sign up on the sheet at the front desk. Just give everyone a rough idea of the possible time-line, we could expect to see this planned for sometime in June or July.

Group Shoot Out:
We are once again getting together to shoot our guns at random junk and stuff in the open desert of Nevada! On Sunday, February 27th, we will be heading down to Sloan to waste perfectly good ammo and have a good time! We will meet at the gym at 12pm and head down from there. As always, we will have an impromptu dinner thing afterward!

If you would like to come out with us make sure you sign up at the front desk. Also be sure to bring plenty of targets! We didn't really plan ahead last time and ran outta junk to shoot at!

Foam Wow Clinic with Dr. Josh Satterlee:
Many of us have been rather anxious to attend the Foam Rolling Clinic that our good friend, Dr. Josh Satterlee puts out! We have set the date for the clinic to Saturday the 12th at 10am. If you are interested in participating be sure to sign up at the front desk! Cost is $25 without the purchase of a foam roller and $50 with the purchase!