(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 […]
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Q&A with Lacy Davis, health coach, blogger & vegan fitness enthusiast
I first met Lacy Davis several months ago, when we began messaging each other about our grand plans to put on a feminist fitness conference. Those plans never panned out […]
Why the response to a controversial Women’s Health article has me feeling optimistic
As longtime readers of this blog might already know, I’m definitely a “glass half full” kind of person. I can throw down criticism like any feminist-minded lady but I also […]
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 […]
If you are going to ‘explain’ women, it helps to talk to us first
Several years ago, while researching gender in the early Catholic church for a college class, I read a book called Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven. In it, the author […]
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 […]
GMA concern-trolls buff women
Dear Good Morning America, It’s not every day that I see a segment on a morning fluff show that makes me flush with anger. Normally you have inoffensive segments about […]
My love/hate relationship with ladies’ lifting magazines
If you are a woman who likes to lift seriously and lift heavy, the universe of glossies really only has two magazines for you: Muscle & Fitness Hers and Oxygen. […]
Fit and Feminist 