Archive for the Lifting Heavy Tag

How Much Weight Should I Lift?

I can’t begin to count the number of times I heard that question when giving an orientation to a new member. Most of the time I would joke around and give them a number that I knew they couldn’t possibly lift for a bit of good humor. The point being, you have to do what your body is capable of.
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Back to Back!

On Monday, Tom wrote an awesome blog about women and heavy lifting. I wanted to inform you about a discussion I had with a person who was misinformed about heavy weights. I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I felt that heavy lifting can be easily forgotten and spoken about too negatively. About a month ago, I was at
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