There’s a lot of testosterone at my gym.<\/p>\n
I mean, of course there is.<\/p>\n
And you know, good. Testosterone helps people lift heavy objects. If I got trapped under my vehicle, I’d want the first person to happen upon the scene to be somebody with a healthy level of testosterone.<\/p>\n
But there’s a line between strong man testosterone and douche bag testosterone, and it’s oft-crossed at my gym.<\/p>\n
Part of it’s just dumb. There’s this dude. Eastern European. Rides a motorcycle. He’s medium-sized, not a beefcake. And when the board says we’re going to do medicine ball squat-cleans in the WOD, and the coach says, “Grab a ball,” this guy cups his right testicle and grins.<\/p>\n
Shit like that.<\/p>\n
But a lot of it shoots right past asinine and straight to misogynist.<\/p>\n
The guys are constantly calling each other pussies…I guess I just think you shouldn’t be allowed to call somebody a pussy unless you have<\/em> one.<\/p>\n Another coach posted something he thought was funny on Facebook. A friend of his had been asked why he didn’t use a squat pad (a cushion between the bar and your shoulders), and this friend said, “I don’t use a squat pad for the same reason I don’t need a gynecologist.”<\/p>\n Haha! You make joke! You funny man!<\/p>\n My response to him: I was looking at the board the other day, and [a female coach] can dead-lift nearly 300 pounds. Isn’t it time we stopped making pussy jokes?<\/em><\/p>\n He deleted the post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s a lot of testosterone at my gym. I mean, of course there is. And you know, good. Testosterone helps people lift heavy objects. If I got trapped under my vehicle, I’d want the first person to happen upon the scene to be somebody with a healthy level of testosterone. But there’s a line between … Continue reading Grow a Pair (of Ovaries)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liftin-heavy-objects-over-ma-head"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1697,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}