Reprinted with permission from Franson Family Chiropractic.
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It never ceases to amaze me that the common belief still exists in our culture that women should not lift heavy things. For some reason, men and women are treated like two totally different species when it comes to exercise. Of course we do have our differences (anyone who’s been in a relationship will assure you of that!), but our requirements for health as a species remain one and the same. Men and women do have different physical capacities and abilities, but we are all homo sapiens with the same essential necessities. I see magazines that tout the stick figure bodies of starving women or fitness magazines that tell you to spend hours on the treadmill with ankle weights on- but I never see anything out there that tells women that it’s HEALTHY and NORMAL to be strong. In my opinion, that’s insulting to women and just plain wrong.
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