4 things women should be doing in their fitness training-But Aren't

I opened up my yahoo homepage and i was looking through the headlines i noticed one that said, "4 things women aren't doing in their workout." I opened it up to see what women are missing. It named the obvious ones such as:1. High Intensity Training, 2. Heavier Lifting, 3. Upper Body Workouts, 4. Training with a Barbel. I know that mostly professionals dont write these types of articles that are published on yahoo so I was aware not to take the article too seriously or as a tip for when I hit the gym. I started to think why is it that it named these particular fitness training workouts. I figured it was attacking womens views on working out and how they have to socially keep their look acceptable to people, like it has always been the view that women arent allowed to sweat. so women think if they do high intesity workouts they will sweat more and women arent supposed to look that way. another stereotype is that women don't look good when they are muscular ans super toned, which is why they put the heavier lifting in that list. Most men wouldnt date a women whose arms looked just like theirs, which is why women usually avoid the lifting becuase their limbs arfe supposed to look slim and slender. This also goes with upper body workouts. Women aren't seen with broad shoulders like men, a common misconception that women think if they do upper body workouts they will grow broad shoulders just like men. This is not an acceptable characteristic for a women to have. This concept was related to a reading in our book with the article called Just Do...What? Sport, Bodies and Gender. it discusses how that women are still supposed to be thin and slim with a little more tone in their muscles. There is only so much muscle that it allowed for women to have. On the other hand they could have suggested these workouts on the stereotype that women are MOST likely to skip these workouts because of these reasons. We do not know how they found out this information, did they go up to women in the gym and ask? Did they do a survey on so many women? How did they conduct their experiment to get these 4 things? Judging from looking at the article and the fact that it was a headline in yahoo I suspect that this was based of general stereotypes of what womens bodies are supposed to look like and made an inference based on that.

-Krysta A. KIN 338I s4