The Barbelles Society: Ladies Who Lift

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That's terrible but worse is seeing a guy next to that girl with the very thin legs who has EVEN thinner legs.

I don't even know how such a thing happens.

PRSOM!

Reply 3941

Smack

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I definitely agree with aivi and think that there are far too many girls who want to look like Kim Kardashian even though they simply do not have the structure to look even close to that. Her hip width is like 1 in 1000; no amounts of training and dieting will get your average white girl a body anything like that, and to be honest I'm not interested in that look at all either.

It's also genuinely tragic when you see guys with skinnier legs than girls...

Reply 3942

Chrisateen

Original post by Smack

The media is to blame. It seems like the new trend is the 'curvy' body trend. Give it a few years and it would be something else women would want to look like

Reply 3943

MissLightyear

I dont get why people are so obsessed with trying to look how the media thinks women should look. For a start they cant make their mind up, first its super skinny, then its curvy, then its 'real woman' (which tries to convince you that youre not a real woman unless youre overweight). People need to learn to not care what other people think and treat your body how you want to treat it.

I know its more complicated than that due to psychological issues, but if you take every comment about your body to heart you'll never be 'perfect'

Reply 3944

aivi

Started watching The Walking Dead while eating roast, not my best idea ever lol.
But goddamn I'm a good cook :cool:

Also I usually laugh at horror movies, but holy **** this is pretty creepy.

Is everyone else already finished with exams/on holiday? I've got my last one tomorrow, then at least a few months respite before possible resits, woohoo.

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Reply 3945

*Thedreaming*

any good women's only weightlifting gyms in london?

Reply 3946

*Thedreaming*

Original post by Smack

you can get a similar body shape with targeted weight training
i know of some one who was super thin but now has a really curvy body

its possible.

Reply 3947

aivi

Original post by *Thedreaming*

you can get a similar body shape with targeted weight training
i know of some one who was super thin but now has a really curvy body

its possible.

Um, not really. Yes, you can add some muscle (so get your thighs, ass or trunk bigger) or lose fat, but you can't change things like the shape and size of your rib cage or hips. And for example even if you lift, you can only really target your legs, not your hips, since there really isn't any muscle there, and you can't add/reduce fats to certain spots, the overall distribution seems to be largely hereditary (though stuff like tendency to store fat around the internal organs is linked to insulin resistance and cronically elevated cortisol levels).

Reply 3948

aivi

Original post by *Thedreaming*

any good women's only weightlifting gyms in london?

There's a distinctive lack of general weightlifting gyms in London, let alone women's only ones. Don't actually think there are any.

Reply 3949

aivi

Wish I had £175 to spend on tickets for the men's 105kg... all the cheaper tickets have already been sold, no surprise there. Klokov, Akkayev, Aramnau... *sigh*

Reply 3950

*Thedreaming*

any gyms that are good for weightlifting in general

london area

Reply 3951

rlw31

Only 5kg away :excited:

Reply 3952

Beardbrah

Original post by *Thedreaming*

any good women's only weightlifting gyms in london?

Queen Mary University's gym QMotion in Mile End has a ladies only gym. or do you mean like a proper weightlifting gym, as in snatches and clean and jerks?

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Reply 3953

aivi

Original post by rlw31

Only 5kg away :excited:

from 100kg? jellyyy

Reply 3954

rlw31

Original post by aivi

from 100kg? jellyyy

Yeah, I'll upload a video later. These were hard, I had to belt up to remember how to breath properly, lol

Reply 3955

MissLightyear

Original post by aivi

Is everyone else already finished with exams/on holiday? I've got my last one tomorrow, then at least a few months respite before possible resits, woohoo.

Must be a relief! Mine havent even started yet (A levels), officially finished college today, leavers ball tomorrow then first exam on the 11th! Dont think Im ready to grow up and go to uni.

Reply 3956

Beardbrah

Original post by aivi

Klokov, Akkayev, Aramnau... *sigh*

It's gonna be the battle of the century! I would punch my own mother in the mouth for tickets loool
that and 53kg womens, Julia Rohde<3

Reply 3957

rlw31

Original post by HFerguson

It's gonna be the battle of the century! I would punch my own mother in the mouth for tickets loool
that and 53kg womens, Julia Rohde<3

LOL, if I weren't so damn poor I'd apply for tickets :moon:

Reply 3958

*Thedreaming*

Original post by HFerguson

Queen Mary University's gym QMotion in Mile End has a ladies only gym. or do you mean like a proper weightlifting gym, as in snatches and clean and jerks?