{"id":3356,"date":"2010-04-11T04:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T02:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2015-02-15T09:25:33","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T14:25:33","slug":"sister-carrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/sister-carrie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister Carrie"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, I’m not actually talking about the classic novel by Theodore Drieser… the\u00a0title just popped into my head after reading this “My Turn” article\u00a0Carrie Lugar Slayback\u00a0wrote for the Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There is one place this 66-year-old retired elementary school teacher feels equal to anyone, on a par with the best and the biggest: in the gym, lifting weights. I don’t care if I weigh 111 pounds and bench press 30. I’m as good as the hulk who weighs 250 and lifts dumbbells bigger around than my waistline. He’d better not talk on his cell or read the paper on the machine I want, or I’ll kick him off!<\/p>\n

I’ve stayed with lifting for about 10 years. I had to make myself enter those gym doors for the first five years. I’m lazy and resistant, so the fact that I always felt great when I left, took a long time to sink in. Didn’t matter that I got spontaneous healing of that stiff back, achy wrist, tense shoulder or gimpy knee. Too much trouble to change into gym clothes and the workout took so long. No matter that the time went by in a wink. I didn’t want to bother.<\/p>\n

Then one day I reached up to comb my hair and noticed my bulging biceps. Muscles I never knew existed popped up on my back and shoulders. OK, I thought, so I’m a teeny weeny little grandma, but when I write on the chalkboard, there’s more bulk on top of the biceps than loose flesh shaking around underneath. And look out boys, it’s all me. No steroids, testosterone or protein drink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She’s a sister, all right… a soul sister.\u00a0 The weight room is where it’s at. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Carrie’s article speaks to one of the greatest things about hitting the weights: empowerment.\u00a0 It’s not all about developing a hard body or getting shredded.\u00a0Her sense of pride in her accomplishment really shines through. And she\u00a0has every reason to be proud: she stuck with it and is seeing\u00a0the\u00a0payoff in how she looks and feels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, I’m not actually talking about the classic novel by Theodore Drieser… the\u00a0title just popped into my head after reading this “My Turn” article\u00a0Carrie Lugar Slayback\u00a0wrote for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,21,26,28],"tags":[610,1854,1035,1758],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8998,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}