Lift Like a Girl: Be More, Not Less
This article is for women who are just starting out strength training or want to get serious about it. Please note that “beginner strength trainees” can also include those who have worked out with machines or even with free weights. A beginner is someone who hasn’t learned proper technique or trained consistently with a few simple, but basic barbell and bodyweight exercises. Even if you’ve …
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I have a serious problem. I'm a deadlift addict. I've truly gone full-bore deadliftaholic. Heck, I wrote an article about them not too long ago in How to have an Awesome Deadlift Workout (a highly recommended read, by the way), and I’m already back with another one about deadlifts. I truly have an insatiable, unquenchable love for pulling a loaded barbell off the ground. Because of my love for …
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From time-to-time I get on certain food kicks that last for months. Right now, I am all about breakfast. Sausage, bacon, scrambled eggs, homemade French toast, and other breakfast-type foods are my current favorites. While I love breakfast foods, I don’t eat them in the morning at the allotted breakfast time (mainly because I don’t eat breakfast at all). So, I’ve been eating these meals at night …
Each week I receive numerous emails and comments from women who have experienced the amazing side effect of improved self confidence from weight lifting. Building greater self confidence isn’t the first perk of lifting weights women usually think of, and many are shocked when they experience it themselves. Here is a comment from a fellow Beautiful Badass that was posted on the Beautiful Badass …
Oh sweet, sweet deadlifts. I do love them ever so much. Conventional, sumo, trap bar, rack pulls, snatch grip . . . it doesn’t matter what type of deadlift it may be. I absolutely love deadlifting. In fact, I love deadlifts so much I even wrote a poem about them. Okay I’m just kidding (maybe) about the whole “ode to deadlift” thing. In honor of my love, admiration, and respect for one of the …
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I don’t know if the following recipe can be classified as a legitimate “pudding”, but this is my website and so I’m going to call it pudding nonetheless. This is a recipe I’ve been meaning to share with you for quite some time, and since Thanksgiving is just a few days away and everyone will have a surplus of pumpkin, I figured now or never. I usually enjoy this as a “dessert” after my post …
Today’s post shares the stories of a few of the Girls Gone Strong ladies and other contributors. After writing and releasing the past three articles – My Experience with Disordered Eating and the two follow-up articles Beautiful Badass Strength Training Principles and Beautiful Badass Nutrition Principles – I reached out to several women to capture their own story when it comes to food. As I …
You read about My Battle with Disordered Eating. If you haven’t yet, I recommend you do because it will provide insight into the following nutrition information. After that article you were presented with the Beautiful Badass Strength Training Principles. Yep. You should read that one, too. Many of my current nutrition principles developed in response to that experience, and primarily out of …
