- What's up elite Thenx athletes it's Chris Heria.
Welcome to another video of official Thenx.
Today we have Lind Slaaay back again with another video
to answer the age old question
can women train as hard as men?
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Alright, guys, so let's get started.
So today, I'm here back again, Lind Slaaay
how does it feel to be back at Thenx.
- It feels awesome, dude.
- Amazing, we're gonnabe answering the question,
more like she's gonna be answering the question,
can women train as hard as men?
What do you think about that?
- Absolutely, no question.
- Well, ya know, a lot of girls are always
thinking like, I don't wanna train too hard,
or I don't wanna lift too much weight,
or work out too hard
because I don't wanna be as big as these guys
that are just training super hard.
What do you think about that?
- I think that is a huge myth.
- Mmmhmm.
- If you lift heavy, the thing about lifting weights,
and strength training, and all that
is that it builds muscle,
and it helps you shed fat.
So what you're actually doing
is building the physique that most women want.
You're not ya know, getting giant huge muscles.
We don't have those sort of like testosterone levels
to even do that, so.
If you're lifting weights, if you're strength training,
you're just gonna get the body,
that most women want, so.
- It's true, I mean if you guys
haven't already checked out Lindsay on Instagram,
I mean I was about to ask you, what about you,
do you work out hard?
I mean, I don't even have to ask.
- [Lindsay] I work out pretty hard.
- So if you already know her,
you already know she is a beast,
but you know what,
for all of you guys that don't know her,
that's why I had to bring her to do this specific video.
So we're gonna put Lindsay to the test.
We're gonna see for all
of you guys that haven't seen her workout,
check this out.
We're gonna do a challenging workout
to see if it's true,
if women can train as hard as men.
So let's check it out.
So the first exercise we're gonna get into
is gonna be a handstand hold.
This is actually how Lindsay warms up most of the time
before she starts working out.
So after this handstand hold we're gonna
go on to weighted pull ups,
from there we're gonna move into ring dips.
Then we have front squats,
from there we're moving into pull overs,
and then we're gonna finish off
with walking lunges.
Now to me that sounds pretty tough.
How do you think,
do think you're gonna?
- No problem.
- Alright.
- Easy.
- Piece of cake, so
if you guys are ready, we're ready,
let's go ahead and get started.
- Let's do it.
- [Lindsay] Ready?
- Yep.
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Alright, Lindsey.
- Yes.
- So why are we doing these handstands?
- So I like to do handstands
just to kind of wake my whole body up,
kind of gets you in tune with everything
because handstands you need to be thinking
about your whole body here,
your hands, your core, your feet, your back,
like your whole body is engaged with it.
- True.
- So, it just kind of gets me like in tune with my body.
Gets everything working without putting too much
like weight on anything yet,
and I like to do, like some movement,
just to like kind of warm all my muscles up.
Make myself nice and like,
nice and mobile as you're training .
- Alright.
Oof,
alrighty,
so I'm a little bit loose,
I'm ready to start those weighted pull ups.
- Let's do it.
- Let's get right into it.
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- Alright.
- Let's go ahead,
get those weighted pull ups.
Okay so, how many are we gonna do?
How many do you usually do?
- So, when I'm doing weighted pull ups,
I usually go for like heavier weight, less reps,
cause I'm really trying to work on strength.
- Nice.
- If I'm going to just crank reps out,
I'm probably just gonna use my body weight.
- Right.
- And since these are the first exercise
that we're doing in this workout
we're feeling pretty fresh.
So I'd say we're gonna go for a weight
where we can hit five reps.
- Okay.
- And we can, if you can do more
than five reps with a weight,
then you probably should have gone heavier, so.
- You heard what she said.
If you can already do more than five
with the weight that you're doing,
put on more weight so that it challenges you
to reach those five reps.
Here we go, ready?
- Ready.
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- Woof, that's tough girl.
You killin it, killin it.
Alrighty let's take this off,
and let's go into ring dips.
- So what's the verdict so far?
I think, we're doing pretty well as far as.
- I think we're doing pretty good.
- As hard as men.
- Hey, some men don't even do weighted pull ups right?
- That's true, some men don't even do them
with their own body weight.
- That's true too.
Alright,
moving on.
Ring dips, you wanna go first on this one,
you want me to go?
- I can go first, I don't need that much rest.
- Damn, what a beast.
That's why they call her Lind Slaaay.
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- Full range and motion guys, always.
Now ring dips, this is like an excellent move,
and it looks pretty basic.
It looks pretty simple,
but what you can't see is how
she's struggling
to keep her body stay.
- Woo.
- You see that is the main element,
that's working in this move right here is just.
- Yeah
- Trying to keep your body as stable as possible.
- Absolutely people who can rep out rings
on the parallel bars,
get up on the rings,
and just start shaking like crazy.
- Yeah.
- Cause the amount of stability that requires
to hold your body weight on the rings like that is insane.
- Yeah, it's true, if I can give you guys
one little tip while you're doing this
to try to keep your body straight,
and as controlled as possible,
and when you first jump on it's gonna be really tough,
but if you hold it really, really tight,
and you squeeze, squeeze, squeeze,
and you keep your arms as close to your body as possible,
squeezing your arms close to your body,
it will help you.
- Mmmhmm.
- To regain that, see squeezing your hands
close to yourself.
- And also when you're on the rings,
you wanna take your temps a lot slower
than you do on the parallel bars.
A lot of people get on the paralllel bars,
and just start cranking it.
- That's true.
- You can't really do that on the rings.
- No, cause then you'll be like, bouncing.
- They're gonna go all over the place.
- Yeah.
- You wanna take em,
you wanna control them,
take them nice and slow.
Hit that full range,
and what I like to do, like Chris is doing here,
lower down a little bit, like more slowly,
hold for a second,
and then push back up explicitly.
- Yeah.
- Like so.
- ooof.
- Nice, man.
- I like to like to hold that last one.
Alright, ready to move on.
Ready?
- Ready.
- So now we have the squats, right?
- Front squats.
- Front squats, let's go into it.
You're not even out of breath.
I normally get in the comments,
like hey, Chris aren't you gonna rest.
(Lindsay laughs)
Alright.
- Let's go.
- You ready?
- I'm ready.
- Front squats.
Let's do it.
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One more.
Wooo, pretty good, pretty good, killin it.
- Feeling good?
- Girl you're killing it.
- Wooo.
- Killin it, alright.
- Alright, we've still got two things left though.
- Are you ready for some pull overs?
- Let's keep it going, I'm ready for some pull overs.
- Let's do it.
Where do you wanna do it?
- Here.
- Right there?
I'll choose the one right behind you.
Alrighty, hopefully,
my mic doesn't fall out of my pocket.
- How many are we in for?
Like five full reps?
- We can go for five.
- Yeah cool.
- Here we go.
- Let's do it.
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- Wooo,
that move actually
makes me a little dizzy.
Alright so,
you ready for the last move walking lunges?
- I'm ready.
- All this seems easy to you.
We should have made a little bit harder of a workout.
What do you think, ya got it, let's use these.
- Next time, next time Chris.
- Next time, for sure.
Next time we're gonna have you teaching me.
- I wanted to go easy on you for this one.
(Chris laughs)
- Girl, you're killing me.
- We're going this way, that way,
which way we going?
- Let's do the walking lunges,
we'll go this way,
let me move these out of the way.
- Kay.
- Alright.
Last move,
walking lunges.
Here we go.
Hopefully my bar doesn't hit the bars.
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Alright,
wooo
go ahead, and drop this,
woooh.
Girl, you rock.
I think it's safe to say,
that women can definitely train
as hard
as men.
Yep, so a lot of women are really afraid
to walk into like a weight section of a gym
cause they're always surrounded by guys,
and they feel really intimidate,
but I hope that you can use
what just happened here
as proof that if you're a girl,
and you wanna get in the weight room,
and ya know, whatever you see a guy doing,
you can do it.
Like there's no reason, why you can't
if you just work at it.
- So true, so true, I mean Lindsay is like
literally living proof right here.
I mean one of the biggest misconceptions
is like if I train hard,
or I train heavy,
if I do a lot of reps,
if I train like super tough,
I'm gonna get super big.
- Yeah, I mean, I train every day.
- Was this like that hard, honestly.
It's alright.
- It was alright, I could have gone harder.
- But I'm sure you've trained much harder.
- Yeah.
- You know what I'm saying,
this is definitely not your hardest work out, you've done.
- If you think that lifting weights
is gonna make you like she hulk, like here I am.
- How many times a week do you think?
- Seven unless I need a rest day.
- So imagine that.
So if you're afraid that you're gonna get some like huge
type of physique or something like that.
- No, I've.
- This is exactly the result of training hard.
- I've become so much happier with my body.
- Yeah.
- Since, I've started training.
I used to be really insecure,
and now it's not even so much
about what my body looks like,
but just being able to do all this stuff
has given me so much confidence.
- Right, so girls and guys,
to sum it all up,
can women train as hard as men?
Hell yeah.
- Hell yeah.
- In fact you should be,
if you want the skills, the physique,
and the level of fitness, as Lindsay over here,
you must be continuously challenging yourself,
creating hypertrophy, and of course
always trying to take your training
to the next level.
Do not worry about looking big bulky,
or any of this nonsense,
cause that is just not the case.
If anything you're doing squats all day,
and you have a nice bum,
but the rest of your body is just flabby,
and you just look horrible,
you just don't look like you're in shape, alright, so.
- Trust me yeah, if you start training in the gym
you are going to love your body.
You're gonna love the way you look.
It won't even.
It will start to not matter to you,
what your body even looks like,
just the feeling.
- That's so true.
- Of being able to do so much.
- That's so true.
- Will give you so much confidence.
- It's like this natural high,
every time I work out, I just feel so great.
Even after, especially when I'm done,
I feel like accomplished, ya know,
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Lindsay, you rock.
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