Weight Training Is Not Aerobics

We (Linda Kravitz and I) conducted another class recently on Weight Training for Women. This class expected that we were going to have a "group" weight training class. Imagine 30 plus newbie women in one small classroom pumping heavy iron all at once - I'm sure we'd be sued for 30 plus back and neck injuries.

Weight training is a relatively solitary activity - the group gym classes that involve lifting light weights are aerobic - a 3 lb. dumbbell in the hand doth not a weight training workout make!

I often worry that as women, we tend to seek "communal experiences". We are put off by weight training because it can't take place in a group setting. Well, lest we all end up in group injury, group weight training is off limits. Meanwhile, maybe we women should work on being more narcissistic and less "communal" - - -

Ciao for now! Janet