On having tattoos and being a female athlete
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 […]
Category Archives: Women and Muscles
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! – […]
Women’s difficulty with pull-ups is about more than biology
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 […]
What does domestic violence have to do with this blog? Everything
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 […]
A note of apology to my thighs
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 […]
Untangling the relationship between weightlifting and uterine prolapse
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 […]
Some thoughts on the occasion of my first chin-up
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 […]
I took a pole dance class (and I liked it)
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 […]
Fitness is not what you look like; it’s what you can do
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 […]
Opening combat to women raises questions about fitness standards
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 […]
Fit and Feminist 