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Category Archives: Women and Muscles

On having tattoos and being a female athlete

June 25, 2014by Caitlin 67 Comments

This past weekend, my tattoo artist Derek and I started work on what will ultimately become a half-sleeve, meant to commemorate my experience at the Keys ultra. The first stage […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Women and Muscles

Q&A with Kat Whitfield, personal trainer and debunker of fitness myths

February 3, 2014by Caitlin 6 Comments

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! – […]

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Fighting the Woo, Fitness Industry Fails, Ladies Guide to Weight Room, Women and Muscles

Women’s difficulty with pull-ups is about more than biology

January 7, 2014by Caitlin 72 Comments

Being a regular consumer of mainstream news means I am well-acquainted with the sensation of feeling angry or frustrated by the talking heads on my television/computer/smartphone, but few things have […]

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Women and Muscles

What does domestic violence have to do with this blog? Everything

October 21, 2013by Caitlin 59 Comments

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, but because it happens to share the same span of 31 days as the much more high-profile Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the subject […]

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Personal Safety, Women and Muscles

A note of apology to my thighs

August 8, 2013by Caitlin 25 Comments

Dear thighs, I’m just going to come out and say it – I’ve been a dick to you, and I am sorry about it. I want to try to make […]

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Women and Muscles

Untangling the relationship between weightlifting and uterine prolapse

August 7, 2013by Caitlin 15 Comments

So the trajectory of this post has been an interesting one.  When I started it a few days ago, I had planned to just let fly with the snark.  I […]

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Gender and Sports, Women and Muscles

Some thoughts on the occasion of my first chin-up

June 26, 2013by Caitlin 39 Comments

Editor’s note:  So you might have noticed that it’s been like a month since I updated my blog.  I certainly noticed because not a day went by where I wasn’t […]

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Uncategorized, Women and Muscles

I took a pole dance class (and I liked it)

May 15, 2013by Caitlin 81 Comments

Are there many things more certain to ignite controversy among a certain class of feminists than the idea of pole dancing for fun and fitness?  The controversy has ebbed somewhat […]

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Women and Muscles

Fitness is not what you look like; it’s what you can do

February 1, 2013by Caitlin 20 Comments

Yesterday on her site, personal trainer Nia Shanks addressed something that evidently bothers some of her readers: why she never posts photos of herself in a bikini.  She’s gotten emails […]

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Fascist Beauty Standards, Women and Muscles

Opening combat to women raises questions about fitness standards

January 24, 2013by Caitlin 27 Comments

Yesterday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta announced an end to the ban on women in combat positions that had been in place since 1994.  While a lot of people are […]

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