Comments on: Are Women Holding Themselves Back?

By: Mandi

Mandi — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:36:00 +0000

Thanks Zuzana and Fredrick for reminding me of this, once again. Sometimes I find myself holding back, not because I’m afraid of being strong…I actually love being strong…but more because I want make other people happy. Everybody likes you more when you are like them, and when you are truly dedicated, you remind them everyday of how undedicated they are….you can see it in their faces. Sometimes it’s just easier to be normal. Thanks for giving it your all every day…you two are inspiring!

By: Alice

Alice — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:47:34 +0000

Hello!
I’m 17 so as you can imagine, most of my friends are on diets and want that *super slim* look due to media images. It’s not their fault, I don’t blame them, about a year ago I was in the same place. The fact is my friends, and many other women of all ages, believe what the media tells us is beautiful, IS beautiful and IS what men find attractive.
When I was 16 I used to get called chubby, and I wanted to slim down into a smaller size, after loosing all the weight, I realised that I tended to gain weight back quickly due to too much cardio and not enough strength training. I hadn’t researched the issue, and went into a horrible cycle of starving myself, binge eating, then MORE cardio!
Until I found out why and gained a furious interest in nutrition and fitness etc, I like most women believed I shouldn’t be toned, and that I should look fragile and delicate.
Most of my friends tend to believe girls who lift weights and do strength training are those huge body-builders, I turn and say to them “Do I look manly? Do I look unattractive?” and they say “NO of course not, you’re lovely and toned!” and they always ask me for advice. I do a small part in trying to educate young women on how to live a healthy lifestyle and exercise correctly. And hell, spare the modestly for a moment, I’ve never found it hard to pull haha!
On a more serious note, it is a huge mental hurdle to overcome. But I believe I have over come it. And once you over come it you can start to work towards a beautiful,strong,healthy body like Zuzana’s!
Lots of love! Aliccee x x x

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:03:53 +0000

Also, I’ve recently been working out a Crossfit (a national franchise). I’ve been very excited that it’s very female friendly and they attract a lot of females. Because of the intensity of their workouts like yours, it could have the potential to be intimidating to women but they make it not which is great.

By: Candace

Candace — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 05:00:45 +0000

It was actually my boyfriend in collage that got me started weight lifting (8-9 years ago). Didn’t do anything major then but he started me off simple and over the years I have found my own passion for it and have learned a lot more. It was VERY sexy to him and I think to most guys I’ve known. I love the intensity of this site’s workouts without weights cause I’ve gotten bored with the weights and this I can take on the road with me when I’m not at home. No more excuses now!! I feel this will give me better results that lifting alone b/c it’s the same strength training but with full body use not just isolated.

By: ZedaGlam

ZedaGlam — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:32:12 +0000

I’ve struggled with this my whole life. My mom, her sister, and her mother (my grandma), are all very thin boned and were very skinny as kids, teens, and even now when my mom is 45, she is still at a size 7-8 pants..my aunt who is 39 is a size 2..grandma is something like 6-8 probably.. But I went into my dad’s side of the family, which is wider boned and bulkier muscle wise. I played tennis for a really long time when we moved to the states so I built up a big muscle mass. At one point my aunt called me “the rock” because I had these nice and borderline cut biceps and triceps, and a very nice calf and thigh..I never had a flat stomach, always fighting the baby fat (baby fat meaning chubby since childhood..)
I also have wide shoulders and a wide rib cage..My wrist is about 1.5 times of my step sister’s..
I’ve always felt like I’m the big girl that just looks like she can beat anyone up with one punch and that I am this body builder compared to my mom’s side of the family. It just comes to a point where you’ve heard yourself being refered to as “the body builder”, “the rock”, and hearing “hey flex your calf..daaaanngg that’s a big and cut calf!” that you feel awkward about your muscular build. Honestly, sometimes the fact that I have pretty big arms for a girl kind of gets in the way of buying some clothes but honestly when I’m working out, and then I look down at my calf and realize that “hey they could use my legs for a sports shoe commercial”, it makes you feel pretty good..
just don’t flex for your skinny family.. :)
this is mainly why I started doing the workouts on this website..I’m afraid to lift weights but that treadmill a)bores me to death and b)just doesn’t do anything for my body..I feel like I just drag myself to torture on that treadmill and then it gives me no results..hopefully these workouts give me what I need..my “mojo” back.. ;)