According to Jason Gannone, a personal trainer at the CU recreation center UC , cultural norms for women have changed. I m seeing more and more girls in the weight room, he said. Linda Craighead, a professor of psychology, thinks women have the social support in which wording seems a problem men do at the college level. It s socially acceptable for women to want to exercise with other women, she said. They are relationship - oriented and are more likely to want to be together.
Excessive anorexics go alone and hide to lose more weight.
Indeed focusing on only the end result of a fitness program is not helpful to keeping motivation alive.