Gym fitness women

They have never had unified fitness goals, aesthetic standards and behavioral templates. All the labels of "girls who go to the gym to lose weight/build peach butts/attract attention" are all stereotypes that are divorced from reality.

If you often go to Shangjian on weeknights, you must have seen this scene: the girl in the deadlift area wearing a fluorescent green racing vest has just finished throwing a 140kg bar. She answered the call from her elementary school daughter without blushing and out of breath, saying, "Mom, I will buy you strawberries after practicing for another 20 minutes." "Sundae"; the little girl on the yoga mat has just finished 15 minutes of core practice, and is discussing with the coach to replace the hip thrust with upper body strength next week during the aunt's period; the aunt in the corner who has just finished dancing is wiping her sweat and complaining to her partner, saying that her knees have been hurting recently, and she will not dance Pamela in the future and practice seated leg extensions instead. There is also a friend who has an annual pass and went there three times, twice to take a shower and once to get eggs from the gym. It doesn't matter. You spend the money yourself, so you can be happy.

The most quarrelsome topic regarding women’s fitness is “should we use heavy weights?” Xiao Zhou, who works in UI design, is a staunch strength person. She does shoulder, back and leg split training three times a week. Recently, she is sprinting for 1RM deadlift. She often said that after working on the project for half a year, her rounded shoulders and hunched back always made her neck stiff. After running for three months, there was no improvement. After practicing strength for half a year, her waist is not sore when she sits for 12 hours and changes her figure. She wears a strapless sling without even using P on her trapezius muscles. But Sister Chen, who works as a nurse in pediatrics, is the complete opposite. She never touches any dumbbells weighing more than 2kg. She does aerobics and yin yoga twice a week. She has practiced aerobics and yin yoga once a week. She has practiced for more than a year without losing a pound of weight. She doesn't care at all: "I stand for 8 hours a day to inject acupuncture on children. My legs were so swollen that I couldn't even take off my socks when I got home from get off work. Now I can go to the park with my son for half an hour. Why do I need such a low body fat?" There is no difference between the two options. As long as they match your needs, they are both right.

Many people assume that girls only go to the gym to lose weight, but this is not true. A mother I met last year had just given birth to a baby. When she came to the gym, she would secretly tuck her legs every time she sneezed. She trained her pelvic floor muscles with a rehabilitation coach for four months. Last month, she told me that she finally dared to go to the water park with her friends and no longer had to carry a sanitary napkin to worry about leaking urine. There is also a little girl who just finished the college entrance examination. Because she had scoliosis when she was a child, she came to practice core exercises to adjust her posture. After practicing for two months, she told me that she no longer has to cover her breasts when wearing school uniforms. Retired Aunt Wang was diagnosed with low bone density last year, so the doctor asked her to do resistance training. Now she does light-weight leg training twice a week, and can climb the sixth floor without gasping for breath. The bone density during her last physical examination at work was better than that of many 30-year-old young people. Oh, by the way, there is also the girl who works next door to me. She goes to the gym three times a week just to enjoy the music and dance music of group classes. She said that going to dance for an hour after work relieves stress more than watching short videos at home. As for her weight gain? It was simply not within her scope of consideration.

Of course, this does not mean that all girls in the gym have a smooth life. There are also many troubles. There are always unsightly men who come over and give blind instructions, "How can you get thicker legs?" The girl who was lifting 140kg before directly replied, "My legs are 58cm and I'm happy with it. If you deadlift, I won't be able to do it again." She was so angry on the spot that she walked away in despair. In the dressing room, you can always see an anxious little girl looking in the mirror, pinching her waist and saying, "Am I too fat?" The guy next to me directly gives her a protein bar: "You were able to do a 30kg lat pulldown just last week. It's better than anything else. Don't think about it." Oh, right. Well, last time I practiced hip press to exhaustion and couldn’t even push the bar up, a little girl I didn’t know at all came over to help me. After I finished, I gave me a sea salt-flavored protein bar and said, "I see you were blushing just now. Please add some sugar. I just stocked up on it last week. It’s very delicious." This kind of small kindness between girls is really warmer than any "fitness and inspirational chicken soup".

In fact, in the final analysis, there is no unified standard answer for everyone to come to the gym. Some people want to look better in skirts, some want to climb stairs without being out of breath, and some just want to find a place where no one knows anyone, wear headphones for two hours without replying to work messages, and even sweating is relaxing. There is no such thing as "what should be practiced" or "what should be done". When holding the dumbbells, you can feel that your body is your own, and that is enough.