Strong, not skinny.
Fitness blogger Rebecca Catherine Smith is on a mission to encourage other women to embrace weightlifting, after sharing her experience of switching from a cardio routine to one involving weights.
Rebecca says that this change taught her three things, which she shares in the below Instagram post: building strength & muscle, losing body fat and building up a “healthy relationship with food and body image”.
The last point is so important because as Rebecca points out when doing cardio, it’s easy to become obsessed with counting calories and burning them off whereas weight training helps to enforce the mindset that “food is fuel”.
Rebecca has received some backlash with people suggesting that this process is a lot more complicated than simply concentrating on a ‘picture of cardio vs weights’.
Of course, both exercise options have different benefits and the advantages of cardio including endurance, heart and lung strength and weight loss cannot be underestimated.
Rebecca acknowledged this and says that she’s not trying to portray cardio negatively but instead draw attention to how much she’s enjoyed the experience of weightlifting.
