How To Start Strength Training
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Meg once was a terror in the world of roller derby. But these days, her sedentary lifestyle is making everyday physical activities a tad daunting. (We're looking at you, groceries that need to be carried up four flights of stairs!). She wants to start lifting weights, but she's unsure where to start—and whether she can avoid the bro-culture of many weight rooms. On this episode of How To!: Courtney Martin brings in writer and powerlifter Mikala Jamison, who was in Meg's shoes not that long ago. She shares how she got started, why lifting is a lifelong journey, and what we can learn from the current zeitgeist for women's strength training.
Resources mentioned:
Mikala's Substack, Body Type
Book with simple lifting guide
Fitness trainer Meg Gallagher on Instagram
If you liked this episode check out: How To Be Free Of Body Shame or How To Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions
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| 0:30.3 | Meg, when was the last time you felt really strong? Oh gosh. So this is a really long time ago now. |
| 0:36.8 | But I think it was when I was doing roller derby because, you know, you're working out two to four times a week and you're using that strength in an activity. |
| 0:45.8 | You're seeing it on display, basically. |
| 0:48.6 | But I haven't been doing anything that has been working those same muscles literally and figuratively. |
| 0:56.1 | So it's been a real long while. Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. If you're a regular listener, welcome back, |
| 1:05.2 | and if you're new to the show, let me tell you what we do. Each week, listeners tell us their |
| 1:10.2 | goals and we find the perfect |
| 1:11.6 | person to guide them on their journey. Today, we're headed to the gym, to pump iron, to find |
| 1:18.1 | our inner strength, and of course get those sweet, sweet gains. Just a heads up that we're |
| 1:24.2 | going to talk about disordered eating and body image issues during this conversation, so please do take care of yourself. |
| 1:30.5 | Now let's meet our listener. |
| 1:33.8 | I'm Meg. |
| 1:34.8 | I live in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:36.2 | I reached out to how to because I've been interested in kind of embarking on strength training |
| 1:42.2 | for a bunch of years now. |
| 1:44.0 | I'm not a naturally sporty person, but strength training for a bunch of years now. I'm not a naturally sporty |
| 1:45.2 | person, but strength training has always appealed to me, and I know that it started to come into |
| 1:49.9 | the zeitgeist, and I got really excited thinking like, oh, now there's going to be beginner |
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