Women's Barbell Club

Women's Barbell Club

What is fitness for?

Function >>> aesthetics

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Meredith Sell
Mar 01, 2023
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For a long time, fitness has been treated as a means to a visible end.

For women, those ends have typically been: get smaller and weigh less. When a particular method doesn’t result in weight loss, it’s cast off and swapped for something else. Who cares if you can move better if you still haven’t lost those inches?

Plenty of people online talk about how …

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