“A woman shouldn’t be doing an Arnold split.”

[johnnyleon]

@aksands00 Not only do women have testosterone, at stages in their lives, they have more testosterone than they do estrogen.

What a knucklehead.

 

[johnpeniel]

@jimjam There’s research that shows women can take a lot more volume of training than men! I believe Team China weightlifting did a study on this.

 

[jimjam]

@johnpeniel A few people have said that now! I want to read more about this, thanks!

 

[epiphanius]

@jimjam Stronger by Science is a blog run by a guy who is actually in the weeds of sports science. He has a really good article series on women and lifting. He goes into all the research and what that means for training as a woman. He focuses on debunking myths and explaining how our bodies have a few advantages when it comes to working out and strength training in particular.

 

[jimjam]

@epiphanius Yes, I love that blog! I’ll look for more of those articles.

 

[johnpeniel]

@jimjam Here’s one to start: https://barbend.com/women-training-volume/

“In a nutshell: While men can handle heavier loads in shorter time spans (think 90%+ of their 1RM), women are more set up to perform tasks of strength over a longer period of time and for more repetitions”

 

[timhall]

@johnpeniel I've read this about marathon running too. Apparently we pace ourselves better than men, who tend to be explosive at the start of a race and due to how we use energy, our bodies are better suited for endurance than men (though the gender ratio balances out again once you look at the tippy-top of world-class athletes.)

Women also persevere better in the face of atrocious weather. During the 2018 Boston Marathon's driving rain and freezing temps, drop outs due to weather were up ~12% among women while the drop outs due to weather among men skyrocketed almost 80% higher than they had been the prior year. You might be thinking that's our fat layer, and you'd probably be right, except that we ALSO tend to keep going during unusually high temperatures nearing 90° (like during the 2012 Boston Marathon.)

We also give up less frequently because we're more focused on finishing rather than winning. Men quit because it's a competition: if they can't win the way they want to win why bother to finish? Women can re-evaluate and adjust their goals, push through pain, and also tend to reach out for encouragement (and give encouragement in return) to the women running around them, even when those women are not part of their team.

 

[jimjam]

@johnpeniel Thank you so much!!!

 

[kwb321]

@jimjam Arnold himself wanted women to lift in gyms in the 70s and was ahead of his time encouraging it. He even did "tours" in the 80s on talk circuits trying to get women into the gym to lift rather than just aerobics which were popular at the time. Arnold was very pro-women bodybuilding and they were often in the gyms beside him and his "bros" doing the same exercises. Even published a book on it. Tell that knobhead to suck it and he certainly is no fan of Arnold.

 

[jimjam]

@kwb321 Thank you! The more you guys have posted for me, the more I love Arnold.

 

[vinceman2]

@kwb321 Arnold himself is still telling women to lift. He’s telling everyone to lift. He’s got a surprisingly commonsense podcast out too.

 

[jimjam]

@vinceman2 Yes and he’s been guests on others and is entertaining and informative and I love listening to his stories.

 

[kwb321]

@vinceman2 Yes love his podcast! It is a basic how-to-do-life podcast and he doesn't go on and on for 3 hours about it.

 

[rocbishop]

@kwb321 I love his videos too, there’s cameos of his animals like whiskey!

Edit: spelling.

 

[timhall]

@rocbishop Whiskey (mini pony); Lulu (mini donkey); Schnelly (a piggie); and Cherry, Noodle, Dutch, and Schnitzel (doggos.)

 

[vinceman2]

@kwb321 Yes! And actually has research involved.

 

[marcmimo]

@jimjam A man owning/commenting in a female group tells you all you need to know. Just ignore him.

 

[jimjam]

@marcmimo I didn’t even realize that when I joined. I learned later and think I need to skedaddle.

 

[mercymessianicjudiasm]

@jimjam Is it a fB group or a sub?

 

[jimjam]

@mercymessianicjudiasm Fb