# @mandyandthemic on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DYTgSJmhBX_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/65562773-mandyandthemic-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/bb23708ad6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-05-14T03:55:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Amanda Pozniak (@mandyandthemic) — https://gondola.cc/mandyandthemic

## Caption

For year, I genuinely believed building muscle was going to be hard for me. 

That my body wasn’t built for it. 

After spending so much of my life as a ballet dancer, I had it in my head that lifting weights would make me look masculine. 

So I stayed small, literally and figuratively. 

Then picked up weights anyway and everything I thought I knew fell apart in the best way possible.

I stopped shrinking and started taking up space with intention. 

You do not have to choose between feeling feminine just and feeling strong. 

That was never a real choice. Someone just made you think it was.

#beginnerfitness #gym #gymmotivation #girlswholift

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## Tags

gymmotivation, gym, girlswholift, beginnerfitness

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