How to avoid being cheated in women’s fitness

If you want to avoid various pitfalls in women's fitness, the core logic is to first anchor your true needs. Don't be led away by "female-only" gender filters and body anxiety in bundled marketing. For all projects that require extra money, first understand the essence of the content before making a decision. Don't pay unnecessary premiums for packaged gimmicks.

Last week, I went to the gym downstairs with my younger sister who had just graduated for consultation. When the salesperson came up, they talked about "women's body shaping", saying that girls don't need to use heavy weights, and thickened arms and legs will not look good. Their exclusive peach butt small class and the special class for worshiping women are specially designed for women. In three months, you can build a "pure desire figure". When asked, the price is twice as expensive as ordinary personal training classes. Before I could say anything, the girl next to me who was applying for a membership first spoke up, saying that she used to go to a mixed gym to train with a male coach, and she was always told, "Why are you practicing so hard?" The women's class was considerate, and there were also members who were quitting classes who complained, saying that these were pure IQ taxes. In essence, ordinary strength and aerobic training was broken down, renamed, and sold at a high price.

Both statements are actually reasonable. I myself went through a similar trap the year before last. I was in a hurry to practice the waistcoat line. I spent 2,600 to sign up for the "Women's waistcoat line quick 21-day camp". Every day, I just danced for half an hour and did hundreds of abdominal crunches until I reached my waist. I was so sore that I couldn't straighten up, and my lines still hadn't appeared. Then I found a certified personal trainer. They first adjusted my diet, and then taught me transversus abdominis activation and compound core training. I didn't spend half the money, and I could see obvious lines in a month and a half.

In fact, objectively speaking, when the concept of "women's exclusive fitness" first came out, the original intention was not to make money. After all, many girls who are new to fitness do have concerns, such as fear of being stared at by strange men in the gym, and fear that the instructor will not understand women's aesthetic needs. "Women's classes" do lower the selection threshold to a certain extent, but they cannot withstand too many businesses. Instructors who can't even distinguish between forward pelvic tilt and fake hip width dare to brag that they are "women's body shaping experts" and sell regular classes for tens of dollars for hundreds more by changing their names.

In fact, it’s not that difficult to tell the difference. If you spend 10 minutes reading reliable popular science content before leaving, you will know that there is no local fat reduction, there is no magic move that “only lifts the butt but not thickens the legs”, and there is no special training system that only women need - unless it is special circumstances such as pregnancy and childbirth or underlying gynecological diseases, the exercise adaptability of ordinary healthy women is not essentially different from that of men. At most, the needs are different. It’s just like when you buy skin care products, don’t just pay for them because of the gimmick of “specially developed for women”. You have to look at the ingredient list first. When it comes to fitness, you need to look at the actual content of the course and the relevant qualifications of the instructor to see if it can really meet your needs, rather than paying for the fancy packaging. If they start to find fault with your body as soon as they come to sales, saying that you can't do this or that, and only their exclusive classes can save you, you can just turn around and leave. Really professional coaches will only ask about your needs first, and then match you with the corresponding training plan. They will create anxiety whenever they have time.

My colleague had stepped into an even more outrageous trap before and bought the "7-Day Women's Exclusive Light Fasting Training Camp" recommended by an internet celebrity. It was said to be completely in line with women's metabolic rules and would not cause rebound. In fact, it only allowed 1,000 calories a day and she lost 8 pounds in a week. As a result, my aunt was delayed for half a month and lost a lot of her hair. When she went to see a nutritionist, she said it was just ordinary dieting and had nothing to do with women's half-cent. Of course, this does not mean that all fitness products with female labels are scams. A friend of mine who is socially anxious has specially applied for an annual pass to an all-female gym, saying that you don’t have to worry about other people’s eyes, and you can practice deadlifts casually while wearing a loose T-shirt. The money you spend is to buy emotional value. As long as you feel it is worth it, you are not being scammed.

To put it bluntly, the essence of fitness is to follow the basic laws of human movement. There are so many gender-specific methods. If you understand more basic common sense and know what you really want, it will be difficult for others to deceive you.