Beware the Barbell? “It’s not that I am scared of the barbell. It’s not that the barbell is too heavy. I just don’t want to weightlift.” -Anonymous As I mentioned in my previous blogs, when I first started Crossfit I said,…”girls don’t lift weights.” I was intimidated because I thought that was what guys were suppose to do. Big dudes wearing cut-off T-shirts, smelIing like sweaty socks, grimacing and grunting over hunks of metal and bending barbells. (Hey, I grew up in a small town remember). I had never really seen girls lift barbells with weights before. That is until Crossfit Progression. Now that I have been Crossfitting and weightlifting for over four years I am losing sight of what it used to feel like to…”not want to lift weights…”. I use barbell movements everyday because I like my body strong and having the ability to move heavy...
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