I've said it before but it needs to be repeated:

if you try to be what everyone else thinks you should be, you'll be a pale imitation of your potential.

As a guy in the lifting space, I heard a few tropes by old dudes at the gym. When I'd deadlift as a teenager, I was “going to snap my shit up”.

When I would squat, “I shouldn't squat bellow parallel for your knees.”

There is nothing worse than some unsolicited advice.

But nothing that I mentioned compares to the daily antagonism many women face in gym settings. I've literally overheard conversations by trainers telling their clients that if they lifted heavy they “would get too bulky.”

Or that lifting heavy “makes you look manly.”

The Muscle Mommy tee is dedicated to all the women who eschew societal norms and embrace getting yolked.

It takes a lot of courage to break away from following the crowd and being your own person.

Immediately our strongest lifters, like our Raskol Athlete Jessica Buettner (who's going to deadlift 600lb this year), loved it.

However out of the almost 400 comments, I did notice a handful of insecure little boys trying to make snarky comments about the tee.

Good. I like to see these wannabe macho lads get petrified. To get positively shook at the thought of a strong woman. It means we're accomplishing our core mission.