Being normal about going to the gym is becoming more and more challenging. What can easily be a culture of self improvement and health has become an exercise increasingly controlled by vanity and catalyzed by dangerous deprecating trends like “lookmaxxing.” Vir Patwardhan PZ ’28 argues that we cannot internalize these disordered pathways and must aspire to sustainable development.
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Girls in Lifting and Fitness makes a safe space for women and gender nonconforming people out of the masculine wasteland of the gym
Say goodbye to intimidating gym bros and cardio-only workouts (unless you’re into that). Girls in Lifting and Fitness (GILFs) holds four weekly sessions for 5C women and gender nonconforming students to experience the positive side of exercise without the too-often seen negatives.
“Our main focus is kind of demystifying the gym as this space for men and masculine figures,” Sam Machin PO ’24 said. “And so we really just want to work on making the gym less intimidating, having more information about what each machine does, proper form and what that looks like, and how to work as a group.”