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    Large butts, big thighs: why weightlifting is so empowering to women | Lizzie O’Shea

    We’re always told to diet and tone – to take up less space, rather than more. Now I’m pumping iron and proud to be expanding
    by Lizzie O'Shea Mar 10, 2018 2 minutes
    ‘Rather than seeing your body through the lens of others, you start to feel it swell and harden under the quixotic influence of your own agency.’ Photograph: RyanJLane/Getty Images

    I remember the first time I tried to pull a bar off the floor loaded with two big weights. Unease pooled in my stomach. My trainer was patient, perhaps a little bemused. “I’ve never met anyone who couldn’t deadlift 130 pounds,” he said flatly. But, I thought, he had also said he’d never trained anyone as short as

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