{"id":203,"date":"2008-09-20T07:24:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelfigart.com\/blog\/?p=203"},"modified":"2008-09-20T07:24:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-20T11:24:39","slug":"questions-ive-been-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelfigart.com\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/20\/questions-ive-been-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions I've Been Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m a woman and started lifting about six weeks ago.\u00a0 My trainer told me to stop lifting weights because they are making me fat. What should I do?<\/em><\/p>\n

Fire your trainer.\u00a0 Weight training doesn’t make you fat.\u00a0 You’re a woman. Without steroids it’s not even going to make you bigger.\u00a0 Find someone who knows what she’s doing.<\/p>\n

Should I work out when I’m sick?<\/em><\/p>\n

The usual rule is that the symptoms are above the neck (sneezing, runny nose, et cetera) then it’s okay to work out.\u00a0 If the symptoms are below the neck (chills, muscle aches, sore throat, fever), then just stay home.\u00a0 In fact, go to bed and get lots of fluids.<\/p>\n

And for the love of Blind Io, please don’t go to the gym when you’re horking up lung butter.\u00a0 It doesn’t make you look hardcore.\u00a0 It makes you look like an insensitive jerk who wants to spread your illness around.<\/p>\n

My trainer focuses the entire workout around fat burning and calories.\u00a0 That’s not what I want.<\/em><\/p>\n

Make a list of your fitness goals.\u00a0 Hand it to the trainer and help him with the big wor^h^h^h okay, that was obnoxious.\u00a0 There are trainers out there with excellent <\/em>educations.\u00a0 A credentials check might be in order.<\/p>\n

If your trainer’s education and certs are better than EZ Training and Fitness, put the list of goals in his face and explain very careful-like that what’s on the list<\/em> is what you want to be working on.\u00a0 If he doesn’t get it, fire him and get another.\u00a0 The woods are full of trainers, friends.<\/p>\n

My doctor said that since my family has a history of bone loss, I have to start lifting weights. WTF?<\/em><\/p>\n

Darlin’ send your doctor flowers.\u00a0 Any exercise that places a stress load on the skeletal frame does help to prevent osteoperosis.\u00a0 Check out Strong Women Stay Young, too!\u00a0 You can get started a lot less hard core than you think to get the benefits.<\/p>\n

TTFN.\u00a0 I’m gonna brave an elliptical today.\u00a0 Hopefully I won’t get laughed at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m a woman and started lifting about six weeks ago.\u00a0 My trainer told me to stop lifting weights because they are making me fat. What should I do? Fire your trainer.\u00a0 Weight training doesn’t make you fat.\u00a0 You’re a woman. Without steroids it’s not even going to make you bigger.\u00a0 Find someone who knows what … <\/p>\n

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