Strength Training Is Essential for Women’s Health—Why Aren’t More of Us Doing It?
glamour.comBy All products are independently selected by our editors. If you buy something, we may earn an affiliate commission.This year at my annual checkup, my doctor said something I didn’t expect: “Have you considered strength training?
You basically have no muscle.”This is true—and quite frankly, embarrassing. I have little-to-no beyond what I can muster lifting a carry-on onto an airplane overhead compartment.
Still, I thought that was fine: I ; eat ; and have a . Oh, and I —10,000 at least—just like I’ve been told to since I started reading women’s magazines.I’m in such optimal health, in fact, that I reversed my prediabetes—with the —last year.
I look and feel better than ever before and my prove it. Wouldn’t this mean I’m doing everything right? Apparently not: Despite what I’d been led to believe about reigning supreme, strength and are equally deserving fitness goals that countless women like myself have spent their lives overlooking.“As women, for as long as I can remember, it’s been instilled into us to be ‘thin’ or have ‘six-pack abs,’ resulting in women spending hours doing cardio and crash dieting to fit into an ,” strength instructor tells Glamour.
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