Many women of all ages, weights, heights, and backgrounds lift at Chicago Strength & Conditioning. Before we started lifting here, we were all fragile, sweet, and movie star skinny. Since joining Chicago S&C, something weird has happened. Every single one of us is now masculine, aggressive, and bulky. Like Gaston from Beauty of the Beast […]
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I don’t do any cardio and I lost 15 pounds
“You’re doing cardio too, aren’t you?,” my doctor asked when I saw her last month. “Nope,” I say. “I just lift heavy weights. That’s all.” My doctor clearly never hears about this barbell stuff and I can tell she wants to argue and suggest that I add cardio to my workouts. But the conviction in […]
I suck at sports but I want to be a great powerlifter
I have always been a mediocre athlete. Born with little body awareness and nonexistent intrinsic understanding of how to perform a new movement or task, when learning any new physical feat, fear and an immediate awareness of how bad I am at learning new things flood my system. The truth is, I have always been […]
Athlete Profile: Phil Beck
You will usually see Phil in the morning class but he makes his way to the evening class from time to time as well. You’re lucky if you get to lift with Phil. He is friendly and intelligent and always has interesting things to talk about. Phil is so committed to strength training that just […]
Getting Strong Makes You Happy
“A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is offensive to some people who would like the intellectual or spiritual to take precedence. It is instructive to see what happens to these very people as their squat strength goes up.” -Mark Rippetoe Getting strong […]