Why don't women lift?

Because that body type that you are suggesting is not natural for us.

Males find building muscle more easier, whilst girls naturally have a higher level of body fat. Hence why they tend to be 'soft'. That's not skinny fat, it's feminine.

I entirely disagree tbh, I like being slim, fit and healthy but in no way do I like the idea of being as lean as a man.

Define natural? No one is suggesting that weight lifting = injecting steroids, or similar. Women in decades gone by probably had far more muscle than you do, because household chores had to be done manually, and putting your pants in a washing machine is no equivalent to scrubbing them on a board and then putting them through a wringer. So the current trend of being skinnyfat is just as 'natural' as being lean and muscular.

As you've said yourself, it's hard for women to build muscle. Therefore lifting isn't going to make you 'lean like a man'.

I totally agree with you. Unfortunately people think that having a tiny bit of definition = looking like a man which is soo not true.

For example someone like this looks to manly for some people on here (which I can't understand why)

Yeah. I'd like to try and persuade a friend to come with me.

And to the poster above who talked about gym culture, spot on. It is really intimidating to go into the weights area of a gym - and women-only gyms often don't have the right equipment.


^ Can't get a body like that without lifting

Exactly!

I tend to look at the girls who lift competitively. If you can train for the Olympics and look like that, I don't see how any girl just doing the odd bit in a gym is going to get bulky or masculine...

Lack of relevant education. I swear PE in schools should include this sort of thing. It's more useful to know what to do to improve your body image healthily than it is to know the rules of hockey
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Define natural? No one is suggesting that weight lifting = injecting steroids, or similar. Women in decades gone by probably had far more muscle than you do, because household chores had to be done manually, and putting your pants in a washing machine is no equivalent to scrubbing them on a board and then putting them through a wringer. So the current trend of being skinnyfat is just as 'natural' as being lean and muscular.

As you've said yourself, it's hard for women to build muscle. Therefore lifting isn't going to make you 'lean like a man'.

Strength resulting from hard work is different to muscle build as a result of weight lifting. Women who worked hard domestically looked a hell of a lot different to the ones posted below your reply to my previousl post.

I just don't understand, why weight lift? Why not just focus on being fit and healthy? It seems so vain, and that goes for both sexes. I don't see the benefit.

And im genuinely asking, not making a point.

Strength resulting from hard work is different to muscle build as a result of weight lifting. Women who worked hard domestically looked a hell of a lot different to the ones posted below your reply to my previousl post.

I just don't understand, why weight lift? Why not just focus on being fit and healthy? It seems so vain, and that goes for both sexes. I don't see the benefit.

And im genuinely asking, not making a point.

Clueless? I can tell that she's put work in but i don't want to look like that - are you now going to tell me what to look like? I don't prefer the masculine look, sorry for having a preference.

Strength resulting from hard work is different to muscle build as a result of weight lifting. Women who worked hard domestically looked a hell of a lot different to the ones posted below your reply to my previousl post.

I just don't understand, why weight lift? Why not just focus on being fit and healthy? It seems so vain, and that goes for both sexes. I don't see the benefit.

And im genuinely asking, not making a point.

Seems like you're satisfied and content with being distinctly average.

One thing is for sure, women great overestimate their ability to do things.

She worked hard and did stuff you dont even know the names of so tell me, how are you going to get her body or anywhere near it?

I've taught a few women how to lift properly and they look fantastic but nothing like the women posted.

Have you ever stopped and thought about why these women are in edited pictures? They're the exception, not the norm.

Strength resulting from hard work is different to muscle build as a result of weight lifting. Women who worked hard domestically looked a hell of a lot different to the ones posted below your reply to my previousl post.

I just don't understand, why weight lift? Why not just focus on being fit and healthy? It seems so vain, and that goes for both sexes. I don't see the benefit.

And im genuinely asking, not making a point.

The OP shouldn't have posted pictures of the exception. If the goal was to attract women with no idea about lifting to the thread and prove to them that you can look desirable while lifting, they should have picked a slightly less extreme example. Most women do not see that woman as desirable. You can hardly have a go at the people who have no idea about it posting in here in response.

They are plenty of examples of lean women out there I could've used as an example, but it would've made little difference. People (girls in particular) are always going to pick faults in these kinds of situations because they're bitchy, jealous and bitter about being skinny fat. U mad?

Why would I be mad? Don't start making yourself look like an idiot by trolling.

Girls aren't bitter about being skinny fat, they generally think that's the ideal. They don't lift because the idea to do so would never occur to them. It's not something they just can't be bothered to do.

Seriously, why don't they?

It seems to me that they're always banging on about "losing weight", even when they're underweight. Why do we keep hearing stories about young girls with eating disorders or reading idiotic facebook statuses about "feeling guilty" after eating a chocolate bar, even though their body was probably heavily catabolic and borderline Auschwitz-mode.

And why do they think that "losing weight" automatically means "look good". Why do they always talk about dress sizes and other irrelevant numbers instead of getting under a ****ing bar and squatting. Have most women ever seen pictures of a woman who lifts?






Notice that she doesn't have deeply cut muscles or much bulk? But she's lean and tight. She looks athletic and sexy. She'd be awesome in bed as well, I'd wager, purely because her lifestyle suggests that she has high energy and squats give the hip-thrust an extra "umph". Yes, my friend.

What are the so-called alternative girls are going for? Well they either diet themselves to this size and cover a flabby physique with flattering clothes or they just sit around declaring weights "not for them" whilst paradoxically wishing they had a physique like the woman in the attachment pictures.

And don't get me started on crash diets (special k lulz). Anyone who still gets sucked in by them after they seen what happened the first time clearlyneeds help.