Turns out gains aren’t just for men #TEDTalks

[0:00]Women think that if they pick up a 20-lb dumbbell that they will somehow look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now, I can tell you that it takes years of very serious training and steroids to accumulate that kind of look. Strength training meets you where you're at. The first day you're in the gym, you're not going to be doing a 500-lb back squat. It's about being stronger today than you were yesterday. But in the Journal of Exercise Science, they found for every woman that was using the free weight section of the gym, there was 27 men. Resistance training happens to be the only non-pharmacological intervention that has been to consistently shown to offset these age-related declines in skeletal muscle mass, strength, and power. This cannot be achieved on a treadmill. The male bias in gym culture is literally everywhere, and it's time for us to counter it. All humans have muscles. Muscles make us healthy. Start lifting heavy things now. Nobody can do it for you, literally. Your older self will thank you. Or if you are your older self, it's never too late. This is not about aesthetics. This is about health, and physically strong women are healthy women.