| Nymeria said: One of the best trends seen in recent years is how the stigma of women lifting weights is going away. Use to be vast majority of women left free weights alone and were on tread mills or elliptical. Not that cardio is bad, I just like it when certain attitudes about having some muscles is not something looked down on in a woman.
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I too am glad that the stigma has largely disappeared. We actually have a female Arnold Classic competitor at my gym who is very strong. A few of the "gym bros" I encounter could learn a thing or two from her haha.
I'll always have respect for olympic weightlifters; they are on another level completely. Lu Xiaojun is probably my favorite. Weighs in at 77kg and has squatted 300kg in training o.O. His quads and back muscles are insane!
I'm actually considering getting into Oly lifting. I've always been more interested in weightlifting/strongman stuff than I have been in bodybuilding. At risk of opening a whole new can of worms, I consider bodybuilding to be a disgrace ever since they abandoned the "Arnold" aesthetic bodytype and the HGH bloated stomachs took over. Every dude wanted to look like Arnold. Nobody wants to look like a barrel that can't move it's arms. But I digress.
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