Large butts, big thighs: why weightlifting is so empowering to women | Lizzie O’Shea
We’re always told to diet and tone – to take up less space, rather than more. Now I’m pumping iron and proud to be expanding
by Lizzie O'Shea
Mar 10, 2018
2 minutes
I remember the first time I tried to pull a bar off the floor loaded with two big weights. Unease pooled in my stomach. My trainer was patient, perhaps a little bemused. “I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t deadlift 130 pounds,” he said flatly. But, I thought, he had also said he’d never trained anyone as short as
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