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She's A Beast is now at shesabeast.co!

This site (shesabeast.substack.com) is no longer being updated. All posts have been moved to shesabeast.co. If you somehow ended up here and wish to…

Aug 12, 2022 •

May 2022

How much do you pay for your gym?

I often hear from folks who are struggling with justifying paying a gym membership, particularly when they are new to working out and are afraid…

May 22, 2022 •

At what point is someone actually "strong" and "good"?

The strength standards charts have been making the rounds in our Discord lately, and a reader recently asked me to pass this question along: “Wh…

May 8, 2022 •

April 2022

Share your setup: How do you track your workouts?

My workout-tracking setup has undergone SEVERAL evolutions in the last decade-plus (!). When I was a runner, it was fairly easy to log everythin…

Apr 24, 2022 •

Write a letter to your hater

Most of us have at least one person in our lives who, shall we say, didn’t much care for our lifting-based journeys of self-acceptance and enlig…

Apr 10, 2022 •

March 2022

The first time you remember feeling like, "f*** yeah, I'm strong"

Maybe not everyone remembers the first moment they felt yoked after they started lifting. But mine is the following: One time, my friends and I …

Mar 27, 2022 •

What have you tried that turned out to be a waste of time?

In and around lifting, I mean—training techniques, foods, habits. This is not to criticize how anyone else lives their life, but I don’t mind a …

Mar 13, 2022 •

February 2022

What ACTUALLY keeps you going?

Normally these threads are for paid subscribers only, but I’m opening this one up to everyone! Last night I was thinking about how not a single …

Feb 27, 2022 •

What was it like the first time you went to the gym?

They asked, you answer: “I’m getting to the point in LIFTOFF where I want to make the move to a gym to keep getting stronger. BUT. I have been a…

Feb 13, 2022 •

January 2022

Going on a road trip; fast food proteins?

They asked, you answer: “I’m going on a road trip soon and I’m going to be eating a lot of fast food. Curious if folks have any recs for either …

Jan 30, 2022 •

How do I pick my accessory exercises?

They asked, you answer: “I have one for the hive mind: Where do you find new accessory exercises to do/how do people know which accessories TO d…

Jan 16, 2022 •

December 2021

How did you overcome a plateau?

They asked, you answer: “I’m familiar with the concept of ‘plateaus,’ like you get stuck on your progress with, to choose a totally random examp…

Dec 19, 2021 •

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