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tellitslantI am doing the December posting meme! You can still assign me topics/questions here.
Dec 2: How & why did you get into weight lifting? forgabolange
So the short answer is that it's Wonder Woman's fault. ;)
The long answer... so, I have always been relatively strong, but after I quit dance at sixteen I was never particularly athletic, and I'd never done any sport (outside of swimming) that I really loved. So I joined gyms and unjoined them and blah blah blah. In 2014-ish I had discovered at yet another gym that I really hated bodyweight work, and briefly spent some time with a trainer who introduced me to the concept of strength training, but I wasn't there long enough to really get into it, and after I moved here I couldn't find anyplace near me that had a facility and the training that I wanted. So I kind of dropped it.
But then I moved closer to downtown, and then in 2017, well, this little film came out... :P And I sat in the cinema and watched all these incredible female warriors train and battle and live on the screen and sobbed through the entire thing. Ahem. Anyway.
There were a lot of pieces written about the Amazons and their training for Wonder Woman, and one of them that went around on Tumblr or something said that Robin Wright, in training to play Antiope, had worked her way up to a bench press of 185 lbs. And I thought, well, if she can do it with the help of a dedicated personal trainer, a nutritionist, several months designed specifically to get her as buff as possible, as her literal job, and while being paid an obscene amount of money... I can totally do it in my spare time, right? So I searched for a powerlifting gym that was not Crossfit and found a fantastic place and really fell in love with weightlifting as a sport that doesn't make me feel like I am working against my body.
Like I said, I have always been strong... but there's a difference between that and strong, and I fucking love it. I love being able to pick people up, I love being able to literally flip giant tires down the middle of my gym, I love carrying stuff without it feeling heavy. I love looking muscular. I love watching the numbers on my lifts going up. I love the feel of a barbell in my hands. And I really, really missed it when I couldn't train.
And as for that 185 lb bench press goal... in February 2020 I hit 155 for two reps, and then foot injury and pandemic and surgery and etc etc. So I have to work my way back up. But I have no doubt I can.
Dec 2: How & why did you get into weight lifting? for
gabolange So the short answer is that it's Wonder Woman's fault. ;)
The long answer... so, I have always been relatively strong, but after I quit dance at sixteen I was never particularly athletic, and I'd never done any sport (outside of swimming) that I really loved. So I joined gyms and unjoined them and blah blah blah. In 2014-ish I had discovered at yet another gym that I really hated bodyweight work, and briefly spent some time with a trainer who introduced me to the concept of strength training, but I wasn't there long enough to really get into it, and after I moved here I couldn't find anyplace near me that had a facility and the training that I wanted. So I kind of dropped it.
But then I moved closer to downtown, and then in 2017, well, this little film came out... :P And I sat in the cinema and watched all these incredible female warriors train and battle and live on the screen and sobbed through the entire thing. Ahem. Anyway.
There were a lot of pieces written about the Amazons and their training for Wonder Woman, and one of them that went around on Tumblr or something said that Robin Wright, in training to play Antiope, had worked her way up to a bench press of 185 lbs. And I thought, well, if she can do it with the help of a dedicated personal trainer, a nutritionist, several months designed specifically to get her as buff as possible, as her literal job, and while being paid an obscene amount of money... I can totally do it in my spare time, right? So I searched for a powerlifting gym that was not Crossfit and found a fantastic place and really fell in love with weightlifting as a sport that doesn't make me feel like I am working against my body.
Like I said, I have always been strong... but there's a difference between that and strong, and I fucking love it. I love being able to pick people up, I love being able to literally flip giant tires down the middle of my gym, I love carrying stuff without it feeling heavy. I love looking muscular. I love watching the numbers on my lifts going up. I love the feel of a barbell in my hands. And I really, really missed it when I couldn't train.
And as for that 185 lb bench press goal... in February 2020 I hit 155 for two reps, and then foot injury and pandemic and surgery and etc etc. So I have to work my way back up. But I have no doubt I can.
