A friend asked me to try out a new gym with her yesterday to give your some advice and see if it was worth her joining. She lives about 30 minutes away from me so my gym isn’t much of an option. So of course I said yes. When we got there we were introduced to the trainer on duty who gave us a quick run down (I didn’t tell him I was a trainer because I didn’t want him to feel I was underminding him or threatening), so he walked us through our first workout.
I started to laugh when we got to the push-up phase of the workout because he told me:
“It’s ok if you need to do push ups on your knees, I allow it for women”
All I said was no thanks, I would do the big kid workout! Then I really suprised him when he tried to show a way to help with pull-ups.
Basically they just added a few plates under the bar as a step up to allow you less distance to have to pull… once again I am too proud that I just shook my head, hung beside the plates and did all the reps the real way. I think I kept surprising him as we were talking and I was telling him about my deadlifts and other big movements that love. I guess he wasn’t used to a girl that could lift and knew a thing or two.
It was a great workout but I really wish that people wouldn’t assume that because we’re women that we can’t complete a workout the way it was meant to be done. I finished without any shortcuts or help just to proof my point. Of course it made me feel great but at the same time I was annoyed and disappointed.
Disappointed because I work really hard to make sure women have the best workouts to push themselves but yet some just don’t believe in our strength!
Have you ever been treated weakly during a workout?
Here are the moves they had us do:
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