Strength training in the media

[Elephant]

Here's how Emma Stone gained 15 pounds for 'Battle of the Sexes'

Could be worse.

[Mark Rippetoe]

They could have asked us.

[I_iz_a_fatass]

Actors don't have to actually be strong, just look how the public at large thinks strong appears.

[Pluripotent]

She's probably more muscular than Ryan Gosling now. The look about the same size in the picture from La La Land.

[Hans Bachmann]

Some of Walsh’s daily go-to strength training exercises for Stone? Pushing and pulling sleds twice her size, heavy farmer’s walks (aka walking while holding dumbbells) and up to 300-pound hip thrusts. At one point, Stone was deadlifting 185 pounds and doing push-ups with 50 pounds of chains on her back.

Hip thrusts... I knew they were BS.

Yes, for women. And, yes, that means lifting weights.

“I train (GLOW star) Alison Brie and (future Captain Marvel) Brie Larson, and all of these girls are strong as hell and not big,” he says. In fact, after incorporating weight-lifting into their workout routine, “They fit into their clothes better (and) are three, four, five times stronger than before.”

Seems like a step in the right direction compared to most other articles.

[Dave M]

Seems like a step in the right direction compared to most other articles.

Totally agree. Not perfect, but lots of good stuff going on: talking about an actress doing some legit strength stuff (sled, farmers walk, deadlifts), straight up telling women they need to be lifting weights, and talking positively about one of these skinny actresses putting ON weight, not taking/keeping it off.

Side note: I hope that profile deadlift picture is BEFORE she gained the 15#.