Jaime Seeman

This cannot be achieved on a treadmill.

The male bias in gym culture is literally everywhere, and it's time for us to counter it.

All humans have muscles.

Muscles make us healthy.

Muscles combat the top three killers of women.

Resistance training meets you where you're at.

We think that we need these fancy machines and free weights to build muscle.

But in a 2021 study, they examined a population of women 65 and older.

They put these women through body weight and resistance band training three times per week for 16 weeks.

And do you know what they found?

In the treatment group, these women improved their strength, improved their functional fitness, improved their grip strength, and even improved their gait speed.

The amount of work required to see benefit is actually quite small.

You can lift weights, you can lift your groceries, you can lift your children, or when you're first starting, you can even just lift your own body weight.

It's my mission to make sure that women live a long and healthy life, and that means building and maintaining their muscle.

What made me realize the urgency of my own health problems is when I lost one of my best friends very suddenly at the age of 29.

And there I stood face to face with my own mortality.

I was weak, I was tired.

What was missing?

Something that I had literally wished away after college, muscle.

I knew I had to get back into the gym and start training again, but I had to get over the fact that through my formative years, society told me that muscles were for boys.