~Michele~’s BodyBlog

I am not usually a big spender. I rarely go shopping for clothes, shoes, purses, etc. It’s just not my thing. But I have to say, I went shopping last week and bought something that I can already tell is going to get a whole lotta use. Introducing… my new elliptical!

Okay, so it wasn’t cheap. But there is no price you can put on actually ENJOYING my cardio sessions! I also bought a NetFlix subscription, so now I get to rock out in my own basement, watching episodes of Entourage on DVD and actually looking forward to cardio. I didn’t think that was possible.

First of all, let me apoligize for making generalizations in this post, I just have been seeing a lot of terrible form lately and I’ve got something to say about it. Not all guys use bad form, not all girls use perfect form, but allow me to generalize to get my point across…

Lift like a girl. What in the world does that mean? It means, check your ego at the door, bud. Are you trying to curl 60 pound dumbbells because you are strong, or because you want to LOOK like you are that strong? For example, if you can swing a dumbbell up to your shoulder that doesn’t mean you can CURL that same dumbbell and actually get the benefit of the exercise from it. Isn’t that why we train? To grow and develop our muscles?

When I am lifting, I don’t care what the number says on the weights that I use. My goal is to reach failure at the number of reps that I am aiming for. I don’t care if I impress anyone with my strength, so I don’t care if I look strong or not while I am lifting. But then again, I am a girl. I want to look good outside of the gym, it doesn’t matter so much to me what others may think in the gym.

Moral of this? No ego. My advice to the guys with bad form? Get rid of the ego, lift like a girl. Use a weight that is lighter, but use perfect form. You will benefit so much more this way! You will make gains faster! Hot fitness chicks will notice you on the beach and grab your big biceps and say "WOW, which way to the gun show!"

 Okay, now the last part I cannot guarantee, but you see where I am going with this.