we all lift

Quick note to combat the diehard misperception that males dominate the practice of weightlifting by droves: a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that the percentages of Americans working out twice a week with weights are

• women - more than 17 percent
• men - 21 percent

Call me whatever you call someone who doesn't split hairs, but I just can't get excited over that level of disparity. So journalists, before you lead your next female athlete profile with the idea that the she's in a man's world: don't.

(sorry, no details on the study - gym vs. home, types of lifting, effort, etc.)

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth—persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.

~John F. Kennedy

photo of lifting diva Krista Scott of Stumptuous.com