I know your kind.| India Lima Yankee.| You're crazy. I love you, but you're crazy.
Embodiment is a bit of a nebulous concept, but basically it means a deep knowing of your body and its capabilities, and a feeling of groundedness rather than disassociation. [...]
I started lifting heavy about a year and a half ago and it was a revelation. I got under the bar, faced my fears, and started to trust my body. It is empowering to squat 115 pounds after doing bodyweight squats all your life. It is empowering as hell to deadlift 135 pounds (and it makes moving a fuck of a lot easier!). And it requires a hell of a lot of trust and connection with your body to do it right. How do you activate your posterior chain if you’ve never truly felt your body before? My graduate research (forthcoming) showed that women survivors of intimate partner violence who engage in empowerment-oriented exercise (defined, for my study, as strength-training, martial arts, and yoga) had higher levels of embodiment than those who engage in aerobic-based exercise (running, walking, zumba, etc). Which makes a certain amount of intuitive sense. You can easily throw on a podcast or bumpin’ playlist, head out and suddenly realize you’ve run three kilometres without being all that present to it. But there’s no way in hell you can clean a 40 pound sandbag off the floor without being connected to your body, without being grounded in your body, without trusting your body to do what it needs to do every step of the way. There’s no way you can spar and not be in your body. There’s no way you can “find the edge” in dancer pose and not be aware of your body.
Gender, Embodiment, and Weight Lifting
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Меня очень удивляет, то что все еще пишут про "about 8-15 pounds for women is fine and up to 25 is ideal", потому что 8 фунтов это очень маленькая нагрузка для здорового организма, все что меньше - это лфк скорее, а никак не weightlifting. 3-4 кг - как раз мои обычные гантели (или два, если повторов много, а до этого было что-то более тяжелое), потому что плечам, конечно, намного лучше, чем было год назад, но все еще восстанавливать и восстанавливать. 25 фунтов - это, кажется, минимальный вес бейби-штанги из всех, которые я видела в зале. Гриф без всего уже 20 кг, почти 2 раза большеб weightlifting, по идее, с этого только начинается.
I started lifting heavy about a year and a half ago and it was a revelation. I got under the bar, faced my fears, and started to trust my body. It is empowering to squat 115 pounds after doing bodyweight squats all your life. It is empowering as hell to deadlift 135 pounds (and it makes moving a fuck of a lot easier!). And it requires a hell of a lot of trust and connection with your body to do it right. How do you activate your posterior chain if you’ve never truly felt your body before? My graduate research (forthcoming) showed that women survivors of intimate partner violence who engage in empowerment-oriented exercise (defined, for my study, as strength-training, martial arts, and yoga) had higher levels of embodiment than those who engage in aerobic-based exercise (running, walking, zumba, etc). Which makes a certain amount of intuitive sense. You can easily throw on a podcast or bumpin’ playlist, head out and suddenly realize you’ve run three kilometres without being all that present to it. But there’s no way in hell you can clean a 40 pound sandbag off the floor without being connected to your body, without being grounded in your body, without trusting your body to do what it needs to do every step of the way. There’s no way you can spar and not be in your body. There’s no way you can “find the edge” in dancer pose and not be aware of your body.
Gender, Embodiment, and Weight Lifting
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Меня очень удивляет, то что все еще пишут про "about 8-15 pounds for women is fine and up to 25 is ideal", потому что 8 фунтов это очень маленькая нагрузка для здорового организма, все что меньше - это лфк скорее, а никак не weightlifting. 3-4 кг - как раз мои обычные гантели (или два, если повторов много, а до этого было что-то более тяжелое), потому что плечам, конечно, намного лучше, чем было год назад, но все еще восстанавливать и восстанавливать. 25 фунтов - это, кажется, минимальный вес бейби-штанги из всех, которые я видела в зале. Гриф без всего уже 20 кг, почти 2 раза большеб weightlifting, по идее, с этого только начинается.