La Bèstia, FFG and Fitbabe met for Lift and Bitch on a Friday night...the last lift together before Christmas. #fridaynightfreakparty We decided to train legs...and normally, for anyone to SQUAT heavy after a long day , and week, one needs to dig bit deeper to muster up the energy for a successful workout.

We managed to get it all done before the gym closed early..

Here's the workout: ( we only had 45 minutes to smash this workout)

#quadzilla

A1) Squats 5x5/5/3/3/3 - we added weight every set. Isa topped out at 185lb and Deanna was happy with 135lb for 3 - Lianne did 115lb Earlier in the week with Dr. Ironcore (Andrea) so she didn’t feel like doing heavy squats tonight! 🏋🏻‍♀️

A2) Kettlebell goblet squats 4 x12- heels elevated - for the pump

B1) Split Squats 4x10 each leg B2) SS with Leg Extensions 4 x 12-15

C1)Dumbbell Squat jumps 3x20- holding the dumbbell between your legs

D1) Barbell walking lunges progressively adding weight- x15 each leg x 12 x10 x8

50/60/70/80lb

Converstaion included our thoughts on our collaboration that we Filmed at the University of Alberta on Wednesday. We were super happy with the way the video's were taken by an amazing and talented Canadian Visual Artist and Filmmaker called Kyle Terrence. http://www.kyleterrence.com/

We were able to show case the beauty and the beast like qualities a female depicts in the weight room. We demonstrated intense, heavy exercises while reciting quotes chosen by Isa.

Lifting heavy weights is not pretty. In fact, many of the images portray ugly faces, sweaty bodies, creases and curves of our bodies in unflattering positions.

There will be no editing, no photo-shopping, no filters.

I know that this performance will not interest the general population. I am aware that the physical culture is deemed weird, strange, and narcissistic.

If you find it gross, you simply are not our audience and this performance IS NOT FOR YOU!

We are only expressing the love we have for lifting weights. It’s about the journey to gaining muscle. It’s about the discipline and dedication it takes and we do not really care if we look weird. We are not trying to look pretty while doing so. 😂

I will leave you with a quote that I feel will resonate with many women. This quote was being read out loud while Isa performed HEAVY LATERAL RAISES TO FAILURE. I call them "reps to death"..... "A woman’s face must be made up, that is to say, made over, and so must her body: she is ten pounds overweight; her lips must be made more kissable, her complexion dewier, her eyes more mysterious. The “art” of makeup is the art of disguise, but this presupposes that a woman’s face, unpainted, is defective […] The strategy of much beauty-related advertising is to suggest to women that their bodies are deficient; but even without such more or less explicit teaching, the media images of perfect female beauty that bombard us daily leave no doubt in the minds of most women that they fail to measure up. The technologies for femininity are taken up and practiced by women against the background of a pervasive sense of bodily deficiency; this accounts for what is often their compulsive or even ritualistic character. The disciplinary project of femininity is a “setup”: it requires such radical and extensive measures of bodily transformation that virtually every woman who gives herself to it is destined in some degree to fail"

Schicktanz, Silke (2007) “Why the way we consider the body matters– Reflections on four bioethical perspectives on the human body”

I am not sorry I began my career in the weight room...it has given me such a gift. Competing in bodybuilding taught me so many lessons in which I use daily, and most of all, it brought Isa and Lianne into my life, which is the best gift one could have. Female bodybuilders have a special bond.

We will resume Lift and Bitch Sunday, Dec 30.

We hope you enjoy the workouts if you are doing them with us.

Merry Christmas.

Feminist Figure Girl, La Bestia, and Fitbabe