She has focus and concentrates hard on the job at hand. Donna is not alone. This dread of fat is so intense that the very word BIG will send shivers of fear down the spine of even the most courageous woman. Size, gain, big, increase, heavy, hard, squat, are words that by their description make the average woman shudder and recoil in horror. They invoke the image of stuff that men are made of, not ladies.
Most women decide to join a gym with no actual plan in mind.
When they first began to work out they were probably shown a ridiculous number of exercises by some idiot who initiated them with either too much weight or not enough. If she was positively a rookie, then she probably has no understanding of the connection between weights and strength and likely none was provided. Possibly, she might look around to see what other women are doing which of course, is a grave mistake. Her entire routine eventually will become boring and her goals will remain undeveloped, making her another gym fatality. I have actually overheard novice female lifters being told that lifting weights will not make them big.