(No) Judgment Day in the Gym (Guest Post)
My pal Peter, who is a Tampa-based personal trainer, wrote up this post to help women who are want to lift but feel intimidated by some of the judgmental bullshit […]
Category Archives: Ladies Guide to Weight Room
Q&A with Kat Whitfield, personal trainer and debunker of fitness myths
I first became aware of Kat Whitfield’s work several months ago when her collection of modified fitspo began making the rounds. Since then I’ve been following – and loving! – […]
Abuse, weakness and weight training as feminist resistance
Earlier this month, a man walked into a hair salon in California and shot and killed his wife and seven other people. Sadly, predictably, some men’s rights activists greeted this […]
The adductor/abductor machine: a scam aimed at women
Back in my early years as a baby gym rat, I used to make a point to hit the abductor/adductor machine at least twice a week. I thought that by […]
Ladies Guide to the Weight Room Pt. 3: Starting out
So you’ve decided you want to lift weights, and you’ve told your inner frenemy to STFU, and you are ready to start weight training. But as you stare at all […]
Dear gym oglers – DON’T
Sometimes when I drive home from work, I listen to the Cowhead Show, which is maybe my first mistake right there. I like Galvin’s Open Letter, what can I say? […]
Ladies Guide to the Weight Room Pt. 2: Screwing yer courage
I still remember the first time I walked into a weight room. The guy I was dating at the time asked me if I wanted to join him, and because […]
‘Weightlifting could change your life’
Naomi Alderman is the latest convert to the Church of Weightlifting is Awesome: There’s a weightlifting area in my gym – not just the rows of dinky handweights by the […]
Ladies Guide to the Weight Room, Pt. 1: Why lift?
I am a pretty avid weight-lifter. Actually “avid” is kind of an understatement. How about, I really really love to lift weights. How about, it’s one of my favorite things […]
Fit and Feminist 