Women and Soup Cans

Why is it, that you still see pictures of women doing tricep kickbacks with soup cans?

Seriously? Have we not moved beyond this non-sense yet?

I hope to get women to realize that they have the potential to be strong. Not only can they be strong, but they can still look like a woman! Most of the women I have trained get a huge surge of motivation and determination once their strength increases. Heck, some of them get more motivated than the men I have worked with.

Our society has put it in women's minds that they are to be frail, small, and weak. Well . . . I say no more! There is a since of security and accomplishment that I have knowing I can bench press over my bodyweight, and deadlift almost twice my weight. And ya know what? I'm going to lift more! And ya know what else? I still look feminine! I don't have tree trunk legs or traps like a line-backer.

More to come. This is an important topic for me.

And by the way: if any of you women are still lifting soup cans . . . please stop, now. It degrades us all.

Workout

What better way to talk about exercise and training than to include an update of my own?

One thing that I will reveal over time is how I now emphasize gaining strength. There are several advantages to this, which I will discuss later.

I'm back in a strength gaining phase. I have a goal of deadlifting 260 pounds by the end of November. My current max deadlift is 240.

Here's what went on yesterday:

1) Squat 115x8 (115lbs for 8 reps), 125x5, 135x2, 145x1, 155x1
2a) DB Split Squat w/ 40lb DBs 2x6
2b) BB Shrug 115x2x8 (115lbs for 2 sets of 8 reps)
3a) Back Extension 25x2x10
3b) Cable Crunches 80x2x15

I finished off with metabolic work: Burpees 5x10 with 60s rest

This morning I did some bodyweight recovery work. Back to lifting heavy weights tomorrow.

Who says females can't lift big weights and still look feminine??? I could not disagree more.

And so it begins

This blog is a new journey that will reveal my path further into the fitness world.

I will be discussing fat loss, workouts, nutrition, other training aspects, and random things.

This will be fun.