lifting heavy shit for fun

"The myth that women should not lift heavy is advanced only by women who fear effort and men who fear women." Eric Midkiff misc.fitness.weights

[achillesinhighheels]

'Not What You Saw' [2024-ongoing] by Keerthana Kunnath

Shot across beaches, fields, and village edges in Kerala, India,

'Not What You Saw' documents the lives and presence of India's female bodybuilders.

[macrolit]

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[macrolit]

We're choosing a random in 7 days, so reblog now!

[hydro-homies]

Don’t buy other stuff

[nerdgasrnz]

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

Have you seen Top Gun (1986)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onMay 9, 2025

[kelpii]

Exactly tied!

[titsay]

tangerines

[cyprozombiegirl]

The contemporary queer insistence to call almost any lesbian who isn’t a 1950s housewife a butch is really ignoring how hot and incredible femme muscle girls are…

[cyprozombiegirl]

have you forgotten about her?!

[cyprozombiegirl]

femme muscle girls must be allowed to flourish

[socialistexan]

Wait... Wait wait wait, let me understand something.

So for this cisgender woman with naturally high testosterone (and/or an intersex condition, I do not know her specific condition and it's honestly none of my business) has to be be forced to take the same testosterone suppressing medications that these same competitive regulatory committee said wasn't good enough to suppress trans women's testosterone to allow them to compete in women's sports.

If she has naturally high testosterone, similar to that that trans women experience in their lives pre-transition then wouldn't she have the same advantages that a trans woman supposedly inherently has and can not be corrected with said testosterone suppression?

Like, no one should have to undergo forced medical treatment to be able to compete or to make it "fair" for their competition. Other athletes have all kinds of natural advantages, like Michael Phelps having an abnormal wingspan and larger lungs and heart. In fact, every high level athlete has some kind of physical advantage, that's how they're such high level athletes. You think the people they beat out for their spots just, what, didn't work as hard? Didn't grab those bootstraps tight enough? Fuck no.

Racism, intersexism, and transphobia are all linked, and this case is maybe the most glaringly obvious one.

[gehe-lihiyot-androgynos-varda-d]

Made this a while ago, it remains a relevant image time and time again

[bonborutworie]

[2spirit-1spoon]

"If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression." - The Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977

[notbecauseofvictories]

"I am going to get a good grade in ___________, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve" drifts through my brain with positively alarming regularity.

[did-you-know]

Before and after staining the wood:

Source

[htmelle]

I didn’t trust it cause I couldn’t see any grain zooming in so I looked up his name and,

No he’s just that fucking good. Hyper-realistic is underselling it my dude. This is some wizard spell.

[aniseandspearmint]

WOOD?!?!?!

[teaboot]

MADE OF WOOD!!!

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[jrvarsityjackets]

Someone in the notes said shes doing this with 200 lbs and i cant stress enough how wrong that is. Thats at least 160 kg she’s lifting, so closer to 350 lbs.

[jrvarsityjackets]

Ok finally looked it up, this is Hyejeong Park, clean and jerking 165kg (364 lbs) to win Senior World Champs in the W 87+ kg class this year (2023)

[jrvarsityjackets]

Reblogging again because another person in the notes said this was 200 lbs and it’s upsetting me

[illisidifan]

The POWER!

[iosonomer-blog]

[2urban2fantasy-deactivated20241]

You cannot possibly guess where this is going

[mxtr3ssquickly]

I ain't even ashamed how many times I watched this.

[bellatrixobsessed1]

Lmao this is the content I am here for.

[jgvfhl]

@23-bears Bacara and Fish

[greatshell-rider]

@toastsamurai

[aitana-bonmati]

lmao

[aitana-bonmati]

this is crazy

[breya-etherium-shaper]

Yeah that’s her.

[realisenothing]

why are you obsessed with lifting weights. there's literally no point to it.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: when you get better at lifting weights you also get better at lifting everything else. The muscles can’t tell the difference! They’re fucking idiots!!!

[pinktreasure123]

Hanfu and Motorcycle

[socialistexan]

Oh look, yet another cis woman of color who was excelling in her sport has been deemed ineligible because of bullshit "gender verification."

[fandomsandfeminism]

Bioessentialism is built on white supremist ideals of gender.

[maplefiasco]

TikToker @bdylanhollis exuding Chaotic Pre-Serum Steve Rogers energy.

[necrotranscjk]

An important tweet