[Emoore]

"when I pick up a barbell for overhead presses, I will get strange looks from some of those guys. Very few will offer to spot my bench press"


Where do these women work out? Cro-magnon-land? The middle ages? When I worked out at Gold's, I never got strange looks for doing bench presses, overhead presses, squats, deadlifts, or anything else. And nobody ever offered to spot anyone that I saw, but when I turned to a random guy and said, "hey, can you spot me on this," he was always more than happy to oblige.

As I ponder this more, I think it may have something to do with the way a woman subconsciously carries herself. From an early age my dad taught me that 1)I can do anything a man can do except father children and stand up to pee, and 2) If you act like you know what you're doing, generally no one will question you. Now that I'm an adult, I do a lot of traditional male stuff like weightlifting, motorcycling, and shooting, and have NEVER been treated like I am somehow inferior.