That's not what the abstract says. Women ARE often advised to lift ridiculously low-weights—that's ignoring biology.https://twitter.com/nachristakis/status/775607795399831552 …
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I see. You read it as what weights they choose to lift not how strong they expect to get (what they can lift). Hard to tell abstract
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I'm a lifelong weight-lifter and the biologically absurd "advice" to women about weight-lifting to avoid looking "masculine"+
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+is truly ridiculous. They're told they'll look masculine if they lift in the range that is actually biologically appropriate+
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+for women. And totally ignoring how *hard* it would be for a women to lift enough to actually look masculine in muscles.
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I travel and hotel gyms constantly have ludicrously underpowered weights (for women) and absurdly overpowered (for men.)
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I even wrote a piece about it, which, to this day, gets fitness professionals to recognize me! Funny. https://medium.com/message/put-down-the-pink-dumbbell-1049400ede28 …
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Anyway, would have to read full piece to understand if same gist, but I read that abstract the opposite of what you read.
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