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2005/02/10, 09:21 PM
Women's Fitness: Can you recommend a good website for women's bodybuilding & Fitness?
Submitted by: Denise
Date: May 29, 2003
Dear Tom,
Can you recommend a good website specifically for women’s fitness and bodybuilding?
Denise
Sure. In fact, I can recommend several excellent sites for (and by) women...
Here's one I just recently discovered:
Skwigg's "World of Weirdness"
Don't worry, only the name sounds "weird." This is Renes Cloe's (mostly) fitness website. Renee is a certified personal trainer, moderator of the Body For Life Women's Club and self-proclaimed "fitness lunatic." You'll find some GREAT stuff on Renee's site - such as...
What she eats (She actually has pictures of all her meals... classic!)
Workouts (including the "psychotic burn out circuit", "six pack attack", "cardio hell" and the "emergency" workout.)
Articles (great info, and enjoyable to read too)
Body For Life Challenge Stuff (tips for a better "after")
Photos, including before & after pics (yup, she practices what she preaches!)
Head transplants (don't ask... just go look)
Blog (Renee's own online journal... workouts, miscellaneous musings and other day to day stuff in the life of Skwigg... like what happens when you play with swords at home)
The First time I surfed around Renee's site I almost busted a gut laughing so hard (laughing with her, not at her, of course...she has a great, somewhat 'twisted' sense of humor and her web page is a fun read). If all those scientific websites put you to sleep and you want to learn something about fitness and even be entertained at the same time... slide on on over to Renee's site. (by the way, don't ask me what skwigg means, didn't find out yet)
www.skwigg.com
Kristin Reisinger
Here's another great site for women (for anybody, really, but especially for women because it's from a woman's perspective): Kristin is a Galaxy and National level NPC figure competitor who has muscle and brains - lots of both, in fact!
Kristin is a New York City-based nutritional consultant, fitness trainer, freelance health + fitness writer and musician. She is currently completing her Master's Degree in Applied Physiology + Nutrition from Columbia University and will be sitting for the Registered Dietitian examination through the American Dietetic Association in the winter of 2004.
Kristin is a superb fitness writer and her articles have been featured on www.t-mag.com, virtual muscle, and bodybuilding.com to name a few.
If you're interested in female fitness, Kristin's article Train Like a woman will be of particular interest. Check it out.
Oh, almost forgot... there's some really good recipes on her site too - like flax oatmeal pancakes, Mexican egg wraps, and "Fitness Fried Rice" (not that I could make them or anythying... my best attempt at cooking is microwaved oatmeal, and sometimes I even manage to screw that up). I keep bugging Kristin to write a whole book of these yummy recipes (because someday I WILL learn how to cook and bring some life into my boring bodybuilding diet - and I know "a few" other people that could use some help in the "culinary arts" dept. too)... send her an e-mail and give her a nudge...
www.kristinreisinger.com
Lori Braun's Female Muscle.
Lori Braun works out at my gym in Hoboken, she's a good friend of mine and is one of the all-around coolest people I know. Female Muscle was one of the first bodybuilding sites on the web. Lori was online back in the mid 90's before most people had even heard of the Internet.
Female muscle is probably best known for contest coverage (check out the Arnold Classic photos, including some candid backstage shots you won't see anywhere else), and for having tons of galleries of female bodybuilders, fitness models and athletes. There are professional fitness, figure and bodybuilding competitior galleries, Lori's own personal galleries, and there's even a "homegrown" gallery where you can see other amateur bodybuilders and even submit your own photo and be famous for a little while.
There are also chat rooms and forums, lots of diet and training info... and oh, I almost forgot - my nutrition column (of course, I had to sneak my plug in there!) - plus a lot more.
Although the site is obviously female-focused, there's plenty of info men would be interested in too (not the least of which is all the pics of the chicks). Check out Female Muscle at: www.femalemuscle.com
Here's another site for women I highly recommend:
Krista Scott Dixon's "Stumptuous."
Krista's home page says it all:
"Now you're probably scratching your head a little because--wait a minute--women don't lift weights! Well earth to you, sweetie, because they do and they do it well. Blazing a path through the legions of leg-lifting ladies who "just want to get toned", these guerilla grrrls of the gym are tossing aside the tyranny of the tiny pink weights to find out what fun the boys have been keeping under wraps. If you're a woman who's always secretly eyed those dumbbells but has always had some dummkopf tell you you would "hurt yourself", "get too big", or Gawd knows what other idiocies, this is a good place for you to start finding out the truth and to learn to love the iron.
What you'll find here is good, basic advice and information which is grounded in research and experience, as well as a woman-positive sensibility which takes you seriously as a budding iron lover. You will find knowledge that hopefully empowers you to address your own individual needs in the gym. Everyone from athletes to couch potatoes is welcome here.
What you won't find here are junky advertisements for junky supplements, advice that trivializes your struggles and achievements with your body, or a one-size-fits-all exercise and diet prescription. Take what you need from the site, share it with others, and enjoy a site which is lovingly constructed and noncommercial.
One more thing I should mention: you're not going to wake up huge from weight training, so just get over your little phobia right now. Or I'll make you drop to the floor and give me fifty pushups, you simpering maggot!"
Hmmmmm. Sounds like a fun place to me! Krista's writing is superbly entertaining and wickedly funny... Check out "Mistress Krista's" site right over here: http://www.stumptuous.com/weights.html
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