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Thatās a lot of mirrors! 
lol hope you had a good workout.
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Lmao yeah I didnāt even think of that when I took the pic but yeah my workout was good. I love leg day and arms.
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I love/hate leg day lol Happy it was good for you!
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I love it during but hate two days later when it makes me walk like a baby deer lol
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That sounds good, Iāll have to come up with some short term goals for then. Over head press is my weakest lift maybe i should hit that shit harder.
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Iām finally back!!!
I hate having to wear a mask.
Pd: Even if I have my 2 vaccines is mandatory to use a mask in my country
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Iām ok. Been through a lot of ups n downs but at the moment Sober n focusedā¦Howāre you holding up?? Youāve been through so much.
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Is this cos sheās skin and bones? This is sad if soā¦
Itās actually a thing men (not all obvs) donāt like women to be strong and will make disparaging comments. Iāve heard a few myself. Not āfeminineā(=weak) enough to fulfill my function of bolstering some insecure dudeās ego.
Hell, itās even in my own head somewhere, Iāve been brought up in this society as well!
Time to rise above this and be aware.
Iām aware AndrĆ© that you donāt subscribe to the mentality Iām describing. But the joke kinda does if Iām āgetting it.ā
Hahaha ok wow I just got that. 
well Iām glad I gave you all a speech here. Putting away my spear nowā¦
Edit:Yo but still: why is this skinny girl his gym crush if he looks like this, gotta wonder!
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Maybe heās just pretending to be into her because heās a gold digger and sheās loaded 
we will never know who mystery meme man and woman are, but itās safe to say mystery woman isnāt into him sheās into doing her reps and actually working out
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He doesnāt know anything about her. Secretly sheās a heroine addict and has 3 felonies on her record. He on the other hand is a single dad that works at Home Depot and is about to have his life ruined by her.
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Interesting - I took personal training sessions at a gym with a male trainer, really enjoyed his work, he was very professional; one day we were working on glutes and in passing he noted that this exercise was done much more by women (in proportion to exercises in other areas like back, arms, etc). I asked why, and he said he suspected it had to do with social expectations of body shape.
Glutes - hips, butt - a key part of an archetypal āfemaleā form; maybe why those exercises got more attention from women?
Back, arms, legs - key parts of an archetypal āmaleā form.
Of course these archetypes are cultural constructs and vary from person to person and culture to culture; and theyāre not a definition of what it is to be masculine, feminine, or any other gender. But it does show how we put our energy into creating the idea, the image, of what we think we should be.
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I appreciate this distinction being made especially. We can ask questions, we can be aware and critical without being prescriptive and non-supportive of others. All girls GO, train and love themselves, as @RetainKingII sais this thread is for, itās true! But all girls and boys also GO be aware of the subconscious personal and societal implications of what weāre doing. So we can ultimately become better than our current society and the world we live in. Just by being aware.
Luckily I feel these things are changing a bit and girls are being welcomed to embrace their strenght, itās more acceptable than ever for boys to do yoga or dance and that is wonderful and transformative. 
Maybe this is a universal thing? To be seen in all our artefacts. And it leaves open what that exactly definitely should be. We can decide ourselves. I love that.
Definitely I fall on the society line there. The argument with predetermination/wiring just precludes any further discussion which historically has never benefitted women. Had we all continued in this vein, Iād not be deadliting (AND benchpressing!) these days but still be wearing a fucking S-skirt.
So I donāt consider these questions insecure but benefitial to all but especially women. Maybe they deserve their own thread though, so I see your point. Selfies are one way to support ourselves and others, discussion and awareness another. For me they go together, both have their place. 
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Agree to disagree and selfie of me in an S-skirt just to balance the post shitpost ratio then back to regular business.
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Worked up to 255x3 benching
135x5 overhead press
Some tri workā¦ wasted day in the gym, no motivation.
This is more like it 
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This is true, weak days frustrate me thoā¦
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