Dr. Vonda Wright

So I need to work on that.

So let me do some air squats to see how I move.

Then the next time you go in to do squats, maybe you're picking up two 10-pound dumbbells and you're holding them and doing air squats with your dumbbells.

And eventually you're going to move to the barbell.

So it's all about small progression under load to get to a point where you feel more confident to use a barbell back squat to get into more of those compound movements.

Well, for women, it's set up in a gendered environment.

Like I always use the example of a woman who is in interest in strength training.

If they go to a typical like 24 hour fitness or another brand gym that's out there, they'll walk in and they'll say, yep, I want to join.

And the membership person most often will say, great, here's the class schedule.

This is where we have our spin classes.

This is where we do our boot camp classes.

They never direct them to the lifting platforms.

They never look and say, hey, here are the way to get strong.

Because they are under the assumption through sociocultural ideas that a woman is coming to the gym to lose weight, not to get strong, not to gain muscle.

Not to recomposition.

Right.

Right.

But if a man walks in, then it's always the great.

Here's the lifting platforms.

We have X amount of barbells.