Posts by petite_powerhouse

Original Post by bagga:

You are the one bent petite. I could care less about your clock. I merely thought your some women manage bs to be false and incomplete.

Thou dost protest too much, methinks.

Original Post by bagga:

Ticking clocks aside, all pregnancy is a result of insemination...

 Well, there was this one chick in Nazareth.

Touché. *rolls eyes*

Original Post by bagga:

Wow, some women manage...it is not a flawed biology that makes one choose not to have children throughout a lifetime.

 

Sorry for ruffling feathers. All I meant by that was that not every woman's clock goes crazy. That isn't flawed biology at all: I agree. I think some women tick and some don't. I do think more do than don't, however. But, then, as I say, I was completely taken by surprise when my clock ticked. So I tend to think that if mine did, many must. I certainly haven't done studies. 

In the same vein, I wrote what I did like I did because, like anyone, I was coming at it from my perspective. I would like to have "managed" not to have started ticking. I kind of envy those who don't. Feeling that constant pull to have a child really complicates my life. I am a single, professional woman who works long hours and likes things "just so" in my life. The whole baby thing just isn't an easy fit.

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Original Post by fanaticalboutfitness:

Any one else have 2 cents to share? Please do.

Lose the gloves.

I so would not do that for a number of reasons. But I know many women do lift without gloves. And it is true that they can be a hindrance with certain exercises.

I lift without gloves. I've never even tried lifting with gloves, for the same reason I won't ride my horse with gloves: control. I have a much better feel for the control over the weight if my skin meets metal. If it's callouses she's worried about (which I don't know if this is accurate since she hasn't said), they're really not that bad, and can be maintained with lotion and a little TLC.

Why do you suggest not going glove-less?

It's just preference. I've used them for 20 years. I love the wrist support, for one thing. My hands also get very sweaty and I'm not going to cart around chalk at every three-hour training session. And I don't want to deal with the callouses. I spend enough time buffing callouses off my feet; I'm not going to add my hands to the equation. As much as I love having muscles, I also like having soft skin. As I say, it's just preference.

The gloves I use give me a really good grip, much better than I can do on my own with my tendency to sweat. I'm happy with them.

Original Post by solid555:

Original Post by fanaticalboutfitness:

Any one else have 2 cents to share? Please do.

Lose the gloves.

I so would not do that for a number of reasons. But I know many women do lift without gloves. And it is true that they can be a hindrance with certain exercises.

I'm another who finds Castle funny and cute but far from a work of genius. And it's almost always incredibly easy to figure out the mystery.

As for Firefly, I liked it, but it didn't last long enough for me to love it. The characters and story only got so developed in thirteen episodes and one movie. And Summer Glau as River is a joke. I have no problem with her as an actress, but I do have a problem with River kicking so much eema [and with that word choice my own show loyalties are on display] when she weighs probably 10 pounds soaking wet and none of that poundage appears to be muscle.

I do like Whedon, though I'm really only a true fan of the middle few years of Buffy (after high school and before Sunnydale 90210), and I think Angel went south as soon as He Who Shall Not Be Named returned from the beyond as a teenager. I also found Angelus more agreeable than brooding Angel. But I really do think Whedon has a knack for dialogue and creating quirky characters you have to love. And Angel did redeem itself a lot in Season 5. I loved the character of Illyria. I even considered sporting the blue in my hair for a time.

Bones is another cute/funny show, but they overplay Brennan's issues, and that is getting really, really old. My BF and I roll our eyes all the time when she is yet again acting ridiculously obtuse. And the desire to keep the two characters from becoming a couple is making the story lines surrounding their relationship harder and harder to swallow.

For the most part, I watch Castle and Bones because, yes, they are cute, but also I have very little time for TV and these shows don't require me to tune in regularly to follow along. That said, though, I am a far bigger fan of TV that is far more serial in nature. I just rarely manage to keep up with shows like that. And Bones is very rapidly becoming Must Miss TV for me despite the things that it has going for it.

Neutral (just as I have always contended  )

You`re not Northern, Southern, or Western, you`re just plain American. Your national identity is more important than your local identity, because you don`t really have a local identity. ... [M]aybe you just moved around a lot growing up.

It surprised me that the "horror" question was on there. Now I know that somewhere in this country there are others who pronounce that word as I do. The way I pronounce it stands out to many, but I always assumed I picked it up somewhere.

Original Post by seakat:

I am definitely going to air my concerns to someone at a higher level than MR Pyramid Scheme!  I am going to find out who the Main area Manager is and send them an email like one of you suggested.  I think right now I am a little mentally bruised.. but i will come up swinging!  

This same manager trainer idiot also told me and my husband both if we were spending more than 30 minutes in the Gym that we are doing things wrong!  Granted we dont have alot of time to kill but typically we are in the Gym for at least 1 hour.. to me:

Rushed work out = injury

I am no expert, but I am really wondering about any of his advice!

The other one was to do Weights first then Cardio...  Usually i do cardio first.

I spend about four hours at Gold's three times a week and all they ever say is that I must be really committed. (Or maybe they're saying I should be committed. I have my iPod going when the comments fly, so it's hard to know for sure....)

As for cardio vs. weights, I do cardio first, too, because I have lots of reserve strength for weights after cardio, but once I have killed myself doing weights I can't do cardio to save my life. And, well, I prefer weights, so I like to save them for last. I believe in doing what works for you, what keeps you committed and coming back.

Original Post by pgeorgian:

When women complain about having big muscles...

they usually don't have any, to speak of.  most women who actually have defined muscles love them.  i know i love mine.

Very true.

2-lb dumbbells? Hell, 35-lb. dumbbells don't make you bulky. I've been lifting for decades, and I definitely have muscle, but it's not bulky. Women just aren't built that way. Unless you are using performance enhancement drugs or you have an inordinate amount of testosterone in your system, whatever bulk you see is a result of building muscle under fat. I lowered by BF% specifically to lean out my body and let the muscle show through.

I started lifting back when very, very few women were into that sort of thing. And it amazes me that, all these years later, the same myths persist. At least, though, there is more appreciation for an athletic, muscular female body now. I get compliments on my "guns" all the time. My girlfriends want me to teach them how to get their own. And I had a woman tell me a couple of weeks ago that she watches me at the gym and "steals" my exercises to build her body the same way. That is worlds of progress, when you consider that 20 years ago women at the gym would ask me if my ultimate goal was to look like a man. 

Of course, back then I was also the only woman (though technically I wasn't even that yet) lifting weights at my gym. So things really do change, thankfully.