Thursday, November 26, 2009

Pull-up Chin-ups Anyone?



Attached is a video of me doing pull-ups and it seems like I amaze everyone whenever I do these? So I do know that most women can't do pull-ups/chin-ups and when I first tried to do a pull up I was only able to do 1 but I kept to it, and now I could do between 8 and 10 reps. This past week this lady saw me working out (mainly bodyweight exercise) and said to me "you are so strong and you don't look it, you don't look that muscular". I am not sure what to say about that! I was also told by someone who I work with that I don't look like I weight more than 50 pounds. This I hope, was a joke, and if it wasn't it was just a stupid thing to say. I don't think I will every get used to the ignorant comments I get about my size. It's often the assumption that I don't eat and that because I am small that I am not strong. My response to the person who said that I don't look like I weight 50 pounds nethertheless lift 50 pounds was that I can bench press at least 100 pounds, squat at least 150 pounds and dead lift at least 160 pounds.

I have said it and I will say it again: 1. Lifting more than 10 pounds does not make you big and muscular. 2. Assuming that I am small therefore I don't eat is as dumb as saying that overweight people are fat because they eat too much.
3. Eating several times a day does not make you fat (eating crappy, junky food makes you fat). Someone said to me this week that if they ate as much as me they would be huge. She also went on to say that she has to starve herself to say at her present weight. The said part is that she was overweight so obviously not eating was not the solution!
4. Eat breakfast. So many people skip breakfast, this is unbelievable to me. I normally wake up with a growling belly, so I know I have to eat breakfast. People often tell me that they can't eat that early. I most admit, a long, long time ago I didn't eat breakfast and would say the same thing but not anymore. I forced myself to eat and now I have to eat breakfast each and everyday!

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