It hasn’t modified my life on paper, nevertheless it fully modified how I really feel in my physique and about my physique. After spending my 20s and most of my 30s actually solely caring in regards to the scale quantity (which I remorse to confess would make or break my day), now I solely care in regards to the quantity I can deadlift and squat and shoulder press, and I’m THRILLED when these numbers go up.
Each week I expect to find out if I can transfer extra weight, get extra reps, really feel stronger. And I feel that will get to the center of it for me — I used to see train as a way of burning energy, in pursuit of being leaner, smaller, however weight coaching is about how far more I can do, not how a lot much less I could be, and that shift in mindset has been liberating.
Plus, each time I choose up a barbell, it seems like a small act of rise up — in opposition to all of the messages I acquired rising up about how girls ought to look and what they need to do and the place they belong — and I like that feeling.
Clearly I’m biased, however I personally assume it’s superior you’re pondering of attempting it, and I feel it is best to go for it 🙂
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