Women weightlifters can safely do without these "compliments

Women who pursue weight training and, accordingly, have an athletic figure and a powerful body, as a rule, can hardly save themselves from compliments in everyday training practice. The only problem is that many of these compliments are deliberately ambiguous, which often leads to conflicts. In order to alleviate this problem a little, we would like to give you six "compliments" in this article that don't really deserve their name.

1 - With your big muscles you look like a whole guy

Many people still mistakenly assume that big muscles are something that only men have. So the fact that all people have more or less large muscles, and that this has nothing to do with gender, has still not penetrated to everyone. So there is nothing unusual about the fact that women can also develop strong muscles. A well-defined musculature is and remains a well-defined musculature and in principle has as little to do with gender binding as cheeseburgers have to do with a healthy diet.

2 - Glad you're doing your thing. I can remember times when women's sports were still offensive

Why, after decades of emancipation, are we actually still confronted at every turn with what was still common practice in our mothers' and grandmothers' generation? Of course, sports can still be hard on women in many ways today. But that doesn't mean that this has to be constantly rubbed in our faces with the help of pithy sayings.

3 - For a girl you are pretty strong

A strong woman is not just strong for a girl, she is just strong. What on earth is this belittling of our performance? Perhaps we should also switch to handing out compliments along the lines of, "You're pretty strong for a guy." Perhaps this would make a valuable contribution to mutual understanding. Since this will admittedly not be the case, it would also already be sufficient if we could agree to decouple a person's performance from their gender role.

4 - You look strong as hell, just look at your thighs

Being an athlete is more than just having a well-toned body, because looks aren't everything. This fact is particularly evident among female athletes, who are primarily oriented towards their training performance and put their visual development on the back burner in this regard. Everyone should accept that each person has different goals in mind, which do not necessarily correspond to the mental template of certain groups of people.

5 - You must be working pretty hard to keep that incredible body of yours in shape

There is no such thing as a body that has the perfect shape, simply because subjective perfection can be composed of numerous different features. Just because a body appears perfect in the eyes of a certain man, the performance does not necessarily coincide with the appearance.

6 - Your biceps grow with every training session

We all have a slightly different body composition due to genetics, which means that some people can never call massive muscles their own despite hard work. Consequently, no one should be tempted to measure the visual successes of other athletes by their own subjective but inappropriate standards. Remember, everyone looks the way they are supposed to look, everything else is detail work.