tighter > lighter

Eat a ton of protein. Squat heavy. Push heavy objects. Have sex. Love life.

— Jim Wendler (via liftstheweight)

(Source: betterthanweakness)

We don’t lift weights in order to look hot, especially for the likes of men like that,” Smith wrote. “What makes them think that we even want them to find us attractive? If you do, thanks very much, we’re flattered. But if you don’t, why do you really need to voice this opinion in the first place?
Shall we stop weightlifting, amend our diet in order to completely get rid of our ‘manly’ muscles, and become housewives in the sheer hope that one day you will look more favorably upon us and we might actually have a shot with you?
This may be shocking to you, but we actually would rather be attractive to people who aren’t closed-minded and ignorant. Crazy, eh?! We, as any woman with an ounce of self-confidence would, prefer our men to be confident enough in themselves to not feel emasculated by the fact that we aren’t weak and feeble.

— Olympic weightlifter Zoe Smith, on men who criticize her and other female weightlifters’ muscular physique (via discardedblackcats)

(Source: taxiarchos)