I got a pushback comment on a reel I posted this week (I’m assuming this means I’ve ‘made it’, right? 😅)
To be fair, it was nothing dramatic. Just a woman who misinterpreted my message about the power of short daily strength sessions as a suggestion that the way she trains – longer sessions, at the gym – somehow doesn’t count.
I wasn’t. But I understand why it might have landed that way.
Firslty, I think as humans, and especially women, we can find ourselves caught in a comparison trap very easily. Taking too much notice of what others are doing, and worrying that we should be doing more, or differently.
If you’ve been around a while, you know I talk a lot about ten minute sessions. Home training. Short, frequent, simple. And if you’ve built your identity around a different version of strength training, that can feel like a quiet criticism.
So I want to be really clear about something.
I run lift classes in my studio. I have women coming in every single week getting incredible results from two longer sessions a week. I love supporting them. I think it’s brilliant.
And I have hundreds of women in GLOW10 getting equally real results from ten to twenty minutes a day at home, with a set of weights in their living room.
Both are real. Both work. Both count.
The only thing I’m pushing back on, is the belief that strength training has to look a certain way before it counts. Because that belief is quietly keeping a lot of women from starting at all.
If you believe you need a gym, you won’t start until you join one.
If you believe it needs to be an hour, you’ll skip the ten minutes you actually had.
If you believe you need someone watching you, you’ll wait until you can afford a PT.
And while you’re waiting, your bones aren’t. Your joints aren’t. Your muscles aren’t.
The image of what strength training is supposed to look like is one of the most common barriers I see. Not lack of motivation. Not lack of time. The picture.