Okay, I just saw the following video on the Self Magazine web site. It’s no wonder women often get frustrated and don’t feel they get anywhere with their exercise routines.
If they’re following advice like this, it’s a virtual guarantee you won’t see results. I mean seriously, if you’re smiling this much during a kettlebell routine, do you really think you’re working hard enough to make any changes to your body?
They don’t reference it in the video, but on their site above the video they instruct the reader to use a 10 lb kettlebell and even said:
“Sound heavy? No worries—keep in mind that you’re using only one.”
Sound heavy??!! It’s 10 freakin’ pounds. I’m pretty sure the smiling woman in the video didn’t get that body using a 10 lb kettlebell. That would be like using a pink dumbbell.
To me, sites like that do a huge disservice to women. The average person is going to think that because they saw something on the web site of a well known magazine, it must be legit info. Well, that isn’t always the case.
Here, Self is just pandering to the stereotype that women should just stick with light weights, pink dumbbells, and worthless cardio. Of course, that will keep them from getting results, which means we need to buy next month’s issue of Self to get a different thing to try.
And so on, and so on, and so on.
Sorry Self, but advice like this sucks.
~Dave
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