I also wanted to comment about being a wrestler. I joined the wrestling team during my sophomore year and was excited because I thought I'd also have an opportunity to lift weights and get stronger. Boy was I wrong. Not sure why we never lifted weights. Maybe it was some policy at our school or just the mentality our coach had, but to get stronger we'd just do different types of pushups, bodyweight squats, and situps. I was lucky/unlucky. I was a 135 wrestler and never had to cut weight and was never pressured to because my weight was stable. But I guess that's part of the reason I didn't do as well as I'd have liked. Almost every time I lost, the other wrestler felt stronger than me, look bigger and more defined. As a noob I'd ask coach and he'd say "you're just soft, you'll get stronger in time. Do more hindu squats." I'm greatful that he never pressured us to cut weight unless we stupidly gained it in the first place. But it's pretty obvious that most of our team struggled because we were weaker, whether from lack of barbell training or because we weren't cutting 5-10lbs of water weight before a meet. The only people who did do well on our team were also the ones who were very strong and cutting weight. They were also doing greco and freestyle and so I wouldn't be surprised if they had exposure to barbell training since this seemed to be their life. That's not to say that they weren't also talented, but watching them wrestle always made the rest of us realized they were just so strong. They could get out of situations we wouldn't be able to because of that alone. I remember a 15x greco roman national competitor (top 3) on our team picking me up like a twig during practice. It took more than a decade to get into barbell training because of being told that I could get strong with pushups and that barbell training would injure me. As I'm sure anyone reading can guess, I regret wasting these past years running through my old wrestler routine on and off to "stay strong".
Rip is so, so right about children and how they take in everything said to them by adults and it stays with them for life. Even the things they just overhear, and the attitudes they pick up on, it doesn't have to be direct verbal instruction. It can do so much damage.
My daughter is about to turn 8 and has training in gymnastics since she was 4. She's already in an advanced program and spends 11.5 hours a week in training. She absolutely loves it and rarely doesn't want to go. You could change "dance" to "gymnastics" in the podcast and it would still be 100 percent accurate. I am hyper aware of this issue. I have been hammering on her that as an athlete, she needs to eat more and drink more milk. I'm trying to get her to understand calories in/out and that on the 3 days a week she trains, she needs to eat even more!!! Childhood obesity is far more a product of lack of activity and eating junk than actually overeating.
Well hopefully it'll help a parent do the right thing. One of my biggest disappointments in becoming a parent is how parents, sometimes including myself , behave regarding their children in sports
I went to see a performance by one of the major Russian ballet companies and I was alarmed at the number of the women dancers who were visibly anorexic. The pressure to remain thin must be enormous.
Body image is a huge problem here in China. Women are constantly starving themselves to try and weigh less than their friends and co-workers. Regardless of height, most women seem to try and aim for a number lower than 50kg. There also seems to he a trend amongst men here as well to stay between 60 and 70... 75kg tops. Once you pass these numbers people take it upon themselves to point out your weight. I started SS at about 65kg and 9 months later weigh in between 94-97. I have a bit of a belly and admit that trying to eat through plateaus and maybe too much milk contributed but I'm happy. I know it'll eventually go away. However, I'm constantly criticized. People who haven't seen me for a while immediately say "you're so fat, what happened?", "why do you want to be that big", and plenty of other stupid comments.
+Crim 65-95kg so 30kg weight gain in 9months is mostly fat. Man, sorry to break it to u, u are stronger, much stronger but u could easly be similary strong with 75-80kg, u will notice once u start cutting how much fat u have accumulated compared to the previous bodycomposition u had. As a fellow lifter who also gains weight quickly when not counting calories and looking what i eat, i strongly suggest to start cutting now and evaluate once u are at around 80kg, u will know by then how much muscles ur bulk got u. If u want to stick to natural lifting u gotta expect muscles to be made very slowly, not in the way and time all those pro's tell u in supplements/diet plans/work out plans comercials.
The reality is almost all sports are weight-conscious. This is about achieving optimal performance. The difference is ballet is run by sick (maybe even perverted) individuals who are pushing it to a different aesthetic level.
I also wanted to comment about being a wrestler. I joined the wrestling team during my sophomore year and was excited because I thought I'd also have an opportunity to lift weights and get stronger. Boy was I wrong.
Not sure why we never lifted weights. Maybe it was some policy at our school or just the mentality our coach had, but to get stronger we'd just do different types of pushups, bodyweight squats, and situps.
I was lucky/unlucky. I was a 135 wrestler and never had to cut weight and was never pressured to because my weight was stable. But I guess that's part of the reason I didn't do as well as I'd have liked. Almost every time I lost, the other wrestler felt stronger than me, look bigger and more defined. As a noob I'd ask coach and he'd say "you're just soft, you'll get stronger in time. Do more hindu squats."
I'm greatful that he never pressured us to cut weight unless we stupidly gained it in the first place. But it's pretty obvious that most of our team struggled because we were weaker, whether from lack of barbell training or because we weren't cutting 5-10lbs of water weight before a meet.
The only people who did do well on our team were also the ones who were very strong and cutting weight. They were also doing greco and freestyle and so I wouldn't be surprised if they had exposure to barbell training since this seemed to be their life. That's not to say that they weren't also talented, but watching them wrestle always made the rest of us realized they were just so strong. They could get out of situations we wouldn't be able to because of that alone. I remember a 15x greco roman national competitor (top 3) on our team picking me up like a twig during practice.
It took more than a decade to get into barbell training because of being told that I could get strong with pushups and that barbell training would injure me. As I'm sure anyone reading can guess, I regret wasting these past years running through my old wrestler routine on and off to "stay strong".
Rip is so, so right about children and how they take in everything said to them by adults and it stays with them for life. Even the things they just overhear, and the attitudes they pick up on, it doesn't have to be direct verbal instruction. It can do so much damage.
Great podcast. Important message for not only dancers, but cheerleaders as well. Any worse than the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders?
My daughter is about to turn 8 and has training in gymnastics since she was 4. She's already in an advanced program and spends 11.5 hours a week in training. She absolutely loves it and rarely doesn't want to go. You could change "dance" to "gymnastics" in the podcast and it would still be 100 percent accurate. I am hyper aware of this issue.
I have been hammering on her that as an athlete, she needs to eat more and drink more milk. I'm trying to get her to understand calories in/out and that on the 3 days a week she trains, she needs to eat even more!!! Childhood obesity is far more a product of lack of activity and eating junk than actually overeating.
+Chuck Connolley Sad that we have to have these kinds of talks with an 8 year old.
Well hopefully it'll help a parent do the right thing. One of my biggest disappointments in becoming a parent is how parents, sometimes including myself , behave regarding their children in sports
I went to see a performance by one of the major Russian ballet companies and I was alarmed at the number of the women dancers who were visibly anorexic. The pressure to remain thin must be enormous.
Body image is a huge problem here in China. Women are constantly starving themselves to try and weigh less than their friends and co-workers. Regardless of height, most women seem to try and aim for a number lower than 50kg.
There also seems to he a trend amongst men here as well to stay between 60 and 70... 75kg tops.
Once you pass these numbers people take it upon themselves to point out your weight.
I started SS at about 65kg and 9 months later weigh in between 94-97. I have a bit of a belly and admit that trying to eat through plateaus and maybe too much milk contributed but I'm happy. I know it'll eventually go away. However, I'm constantly criticized. People who haven't seen me for a while immediately say "you're so fat, what happened?", "why do you want to be that big", and plenty of other stupid comments.
+Crim 65-95kg so 30kg weight gain in 9months is mostly fat.
Man, sorry to break it to u, u are stronger, much stronger but u could easly be similary strong with 75-80kg, u will notice once u start cutting how much fat u have accumulated compared to the previous bodycomposition u had.
As a fellow lifter who also gains weight quickly when not counting calories and looking what i eat, i strongly suggest to start cutting now and evaluate once u are at around 80kg, u will know by then how much muscles ur bulk got u.
If u want to stick to natural lifting u gotta expect muscles to be made very slowly, not in the way and time all those pro's tell u in supplements/diet plans/work out plans comercials.
The reality is almost all sports are weight-conscious. This is about achieving optimal performance. The difference is ballet is run by sick (maybe even perverted) individuals who are pushing it to a different aesthetic level.
I'm just going to leave this here: www.baltimorehon.com/