Gym fitness women

Women who work out in the gym have never had any unified labels, standard fitness goals, or "correct rules" that must be followed. They are just a group of ordinary individuals who enter the gym with their own needs and have the right to choose their own control over their bodies. All unnecessary judgments and stereotypes are essentially transgressions of other people's choices.

Last Wednesday, I was doing squats at the commercial gym I frequented. As soon as I finished placing the 120kg barbell and looked up, I bumped into a girl wearing a full set of pink and white Lolita suits and bear knee pads. She was lowering her waist to start the 80kg deadlift. Her movements were so standard that I almost whistled. On the elliptical machine next to her, her sister, wearing a full Lululemon top, had just walked for 20 minutes. She was adjusting her headband in front of the mirror and preparing to take a group of training photos. Further inside the functional area, Sister Chen, who had just given birth to her second child three months ago, was practicing rectus abdominis contractions with a rehabilitation coach. The three of them were in the same strength area, which was less than 100 square meters. No one hindered the other, and no one felt that the other was "wrong".

There was a lot of quarrel between these two topics on the Internet, but I have never seen anyone actually arguing about them in the gym. One is "Girls who don't train heavy weights come to the gym in vain." Most of the people who hold this view are senior female players who have been immersed in strength training for three to five years. They feel that if you spend money to enter the gym, you have to hit PR and gain muscle. Otherwise, you can lose weight just by running and jumping at home, which is a complete waste of money. ； Another is "Girls will become too bulky and ugly when they lift iron." Most of the people who say this are laymen who have not yet entered the gym. They regard the state of muscle congestion as a permanent body shape. They don't even know the basic common sense that women's testosterone is only one-twentieth of men.

Akai, my regular personal trainer, has been training female students for seven years. He said that the clients he handles cannot be classified into neat categories according to "fitness purpose": There is a girl who has just entered college. She specializes in right-angle shoulder training in order to look good in a suspender belt. When her shoulders are sore after training, she goes to masturbate a cat (a beautiful shorthair raised by the gym owner) for half an hour. After three months of training, her shoulders are not much wider, but she has gained half a cat.； There is a strong woman who works in finance. She comes to do strength training for 40 minutes after get off work at 9 o'clock every day, purely to relieve work stress. She just pushed the deadlift weight to 100kg last week, so she turned around and went downstairs to buy a cup of full-sugar milk tea to celebrate. ； There is also a 60-year-old aunt who got a card from her daughter. She walks on the elliptical machine twice a week to strengthen her upper body. She is afraid of falling and breaking bones when she gets older. Now she can carry 20 kilograms of rice up to the fifth floor without losing breath.

Many people's stereotype of women in the gym is still "occupying the equipment and taking pictures without training." Unfortunately, of course there are such people, but they are really very few. A while ago, I took my best friend who applied for a card for the first time to do core training. After practicing for half a month, she finally got some outline of her waistcoat line. She took photos in the mirror for almost 20 minutes and even adjusted her hair 800 times. Some people said before that when girls train their buttocks, they just rub the edges. I was confused. The hip hinge is the basic movement of lower limb training. This force generation mode must be used in buttock training. Is it possible that to avoid the dirty eyes of some people, girls can't even do the correct training movements?

Of course, there are also different voices in the industry. A female powerlifting champion I know said that she was particularly disgusted by some people who went into the venue to put on makeup for two hours and train for ten minutes, and occupied the Smith stand for half an hour of filming, while there were three or four people waiting in line behind to use the equipment. ； There are also fitness bloggers who say that wearing good-looking fitness clothes and taking photos to record their body changes are the motivation for many people to persevere. As long as they don’t occupy the equipment and affect others, they can feel comfortable as long as they don’t occupy the equipment. You see, there is nothing wrong with either of these views. The core boundary is actually "whether it affects other people." Other than that, all judgments are redundant.

Yesterday, when I was walking out after practice, I met two girls who had just taken off their protective gear at the vending machine at the door. One was nibbling on a sea salt-flavored protein bar, and the other was holding up a freshly iced Coke. The two of them were watching the training video they had just taken, heads next to each other. Their biceps were tense on the screen, and their eyes were narrowed when they laughed. The wind blew in from the door, carrying the aroma of the barbecue stall outside. The two of them discussed whether they should stop by and eat two skewers of grilled pork belly before going home. You see, there is no standard template for "gym fitness women", everyone is just living their lives seriously.