Comments on: Strength Training Benefits For Women: Way More Than Just A Flat, Sexy Stomach

By: Curtis Penner

Curtis Penner — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:30:51 +0000

Hello Anand, If you're looking for good ab exercises and stomach exercises, I invite you to check out the exercise video archives. I would question why you want just ab and stomach exercises? If it's to develop a strong midsection that's one thing, but if you feel they will help you become slimmer around the middle, you should know that no one specific exercise will help you lose weight in a particular area.

By: ANAND

ANAND — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:38:07 +0000

I WANT EXERCISE FOR ABS AND STOMACH.

By: Curtis Penner

Curtis Penner — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:40:23 +0000

Hey Tina,

Good to hear from another Manitoban.

Thanks for the kind words regarding the site. Be sure to tell all your friends…and any strangers you meet…about it too

If more women paid attention to big lifts – squats, deadlifts, pressing movements and their many variations – they would develop physiques they never dreamed possible.

And unfortunately, many “trainers” working at gyms have never even performed these “big” lifts.

Keep doin’ what your doin’. Maybe, just maybe you’ll influence other women to follow your path. We can only hope.

By: Tina

Tina — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:48:32 +0000

Hello from a fellow Manitoban (near the ‘Peg)! I love your site and ones like it that emphasize more functional fitness rather than trying to be a collection of pumped up parts! I have started exercising this July combined with a weight loss program (I was about 15 lb overweight), and quickly lost interest in the primarily machine workouts I was shown in a local gym. Today I was there, and the employee I approached was VERY hesistant to show me how to arrange the pins in the power cage and practice squatting and also how to deadlift, despite me telling them I had practiced my form for WEEKS with my broom in my kitchen and no I would not be adding plates to the bar just yet. She could not seem to understand why I, a GIRL, would want to do the “big lifts”. However a kind male employee showed me, and said I had “excellent” form. Even hubby says my backside is perkier…another perk.

I love lifting with primarily free weights (usually dumbells) I am one of the few females in my gym that I see that use them. I get such a different feeling when I do, like I am using so many more muscles! About the only machine I use is the lat pulldown machine and occasionally the assisted dip.

Once again, thanks for the site and all the work you have put into it.

By: Jody-Fit at 50

Jody-Fit at 50 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:15:14 +0000

Curtis, thx for your reply at my site & I just loved this article!!! It is so true. Like you, I am one that has lost a lot a weight in the past but more importantly, learned all about eating right, eating enough, LIFTING WEIGHTS and more to provide myself with the most effective program. I am living proof from a women’s point of view that the more muscle you have, the more calories you burn & how important it is in relation to all the other points in your article. PLUS, I weigh more and wear a smaller clothes size now than I did when I was younger & did not lift weights. Resistance training is a must for all the reasons in this article!