Now you're probably scratching your head a little because—wait a minute—women don't lift weights!

Well earth to you, sweetie, because they do and they do it well. Blazing a path through the legions of leg-lifting ladies who "just want to get toned", these guerilla grrrls of the gym are tossing aside the tyranny of the tiny pink weights to find out what fun the boys have been keeping under wraps.

If you're a woman who's always secretly eyed those dumbbells but has always had some dummkopf tell you you would "hurt yourself", "get too big", or Gawd knows what other idiocies, this is a good place for you to start finding out the truth and to learn to love the iron.

What you'll find here is good, basic advice and information which is grounded in research and experience, as well as a woman-positive sensibility which takes you seriously as a budding iron lover. I hope that you will find knowledge on this site that empowers you to address your own individual needs in the gym. Everyone from athletes to couch potatoes is welcome here.

What you won't find here are junky advertisements for junky supplements, advice that trivializes your struggles and achievements with your body, or a one-size-fits-all exercise and diet prescription. Take what you need from the site, share it with others, and enjoy a site which is lovingly constructed and noncommercial.

One more thing I should mention: you're not going to wake up huge from weight training, so just get over your little phobia right now. Or I'll make you drop to the floor and give me fifty pushups, you simpering maggot!

—Mistress Krista

"Celebrating our bodies, we participate in a liberatory struggle that frees mind and heart."

—bell hooks