Barbie Barbell’s BodyBlog

Good morning everyone!!!! It is a beautiful sunny day here in Texas and I hope everyone here on myspace is off to having a super week. I have gotten a few comments from some ladies recently that I feel I should address in a public forum. I have had several messages lately from ladies that are warning me of the dangers of lifting weights. I hear that lifting at such a young age will stunt my growth, I hear that lifting weights will make me look like a man and I even had some one tell me when I am through lifting weights all my muscle will turn to fat.

So I am here now to tell you all that these are all old myths and complete lies. Just so you all know I am 5′3.75″ tall, my parents are 5″6 and 5″9″ my brother is 6′ even and he lifted heavier weights than I did he was squatting over 400lbs when he was 12 yrs old. I am of average height and there is no malformation of my growth plates at all. If fact my bones are more dense than a normal person and I have never had any injuries. In fact weight training if anything has promoted my growth.

The next issue is I’m going to look like a man because I lift weights. (LOL) Well have you seen any of my pictures. Ladies I squat 400 I bench 240 and I dead-lift 335. When I do lat pulls in the gym my dad has to pull me and the weights down because I use more than I weigh. I can curl my own body weight and I love being strong both physically and mentally. For the ladies that do look like men, well that was their choice to do that. First we as women do not produce enough of the male hormone Testosterone to build muscle like a man, most women I know could lift their entire life and could not put on muscle like a man can. Heck many men can’t put on muscle in fact it is very difficult to look like the over muscular people in the magazines. I have no fear of ever looking like a man. However I also have no fear of having the cottage cheese legs and arms that many women have. I have no fear of eating a good piece of pizza every-once in a while for fear of it going to my hips because my hips are tight and firm. I do physical activities with ease because I do have way above normal strength and I ;love the way it makes me feel. No ladies I will never look like a man but I will never look like grand-ma either.

Now for the biggest laugh, when I am through lifting my muscle is going to turn to fat. First off who ever said I was going to be through with lifting? Lifting and training is as much a part of my every day life as some of you drink coffee. My question to you is how many of you will ever stop drinking your coffee? Here is the fact about muscle. Muscle is the only thing within our bodies that actually burns fat. Nothing else uses fat but muscle. So the more muscle you have the more fat you will burn, unless of course you eat like a cow. Muscle can not, will not, can’t ever turn to fat. that is impossible!!!! Lack of use and a poor diet will cause the muscle too shrink but ladies muscle can not turn to fat. So my advice to you ladies that bash something that you do not know anything about please do some research of your own and let go of these stupid old myths and get your self into a gym and lift some weights and lose the flab. Cardio is not the answer to fat loss, building lean muscle that will burn fat is the answer to your fat problems.

I hope to see more ladies in the gym and less at Start Bucks :>)
Healthy wishes to you all:>)
peace,
Barbie Barbell

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