All About: Weightlifters Who Wet

 


I was just watching a string of vids of female weightlifters who tinkled (well, that's not quite a strong enough word for it.  'Powerpissed through their exercise shorts all over the gym mat in front of a live audience' is more apt).  Now you know I'm not judging.  In fact, I think it's incredibly hot and liberating to see so many women--most of whom already fall safely outside the typical standard of feminine beauty--also pushing back against accepted standards in this bold way.  No complaints here.

People who AREN'T into piss, however, have made some of the most degrading online comments I've ever seen, and that's saying a lot.  Even those with a more refined vocabulary seem to have the same general opinion:  it's rude & inconsiderate to free-pee all over a public shared space like this.  Especially in regular gyms or other confined spaces.  And honestly, I don't have a rational argument against their POV.  If these women know this is likely to happen, they argue, why not wear protection or put down a towel?  It begs the question:

Why DON'T more of these ladies wear at least an incontinence pad or thick Maxi pad when deadlifting?


"Diaper" Stigma 

Like anyone dealing with incontinence, these women likely have as much stigma around the solution as the problem.  Most women under the age of 60 balk at the thought of buying incontinence products, either feeling like an infantile baby or an elderly granny.  "What if someone sees me buying them?  They look ridiculous!" and so on.  Yet no one ever gives a second thought to buying menstrual products, many of which are as thick as an incontinence pad.  Adults buy condoms at the pharmacy, throw sex toy parties in their homes, buy sex lubricant, lingerie & edible undies... you'd think we'd have gotten over our diaper phobia by now.  We even have "period panties" and "Skims," but somehow polyethylene stuffed with padding is too much. 

In reality, diapers and incontinence pads are just another kind of underwear that serve as a barrier between you and your clothing/surfaces.  Nothing more or less.  Any association with babies or grannies is an inaccurate one, a stereotype of sorts that needs to die.  People wear them for all kinds of reasons ranging from travel to occasional light incontinence like these weightlifters to convenience to full-blown medical need.

Nobody's saying these ladies need a full-blown Northshore Megamax or other thick taped up diaper--that would be overkill and none too discreet.  Even a Pull-Up in this situation might be excessive and make these serious athletes feel weird since they're likely not incontinent in other parts of their daily lives.  (Those are SUPERHUMAN amounts they're lifting!)  The leaks last maybe 2-3 seconds, max.  But there are tons of discreet and thick pads that could greatly lessen, if not entirely prevent, this highly noticeable issue.  And as others have said, placing black towels on the mats would also make cleanup easier.  Apparently peeing before lifting doesn't help much from what I can gather.

Again, I ain't complaining and actually find it quite 🥵🪭.  But it is interesting that so many women from diverse backgrounds are opting to soak their pants and the floor beneath them in front of crowds of onlookers and in some cases, TV cameras. There are tons of compilations out there and, aside from the obvious Omo hotness, it's an intriguing & somewhat puzzling trend.  Do they think nobody can see it happening?  Maybe they don't feel it at the moment?  Love to hear from a female weightlifter who has dealt with or witnessed this up close.  Promise not to be weird or make it sexual.  

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Here are the facts:  

Studies indicate that Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is the most common type of urinary leakage in women, affecting 24% to 45% of women older than 30.  It's most common in older women, affecting up to 75% of women over 65, but also affects fit young athletes at rates as high as 44-51%.  Vaginal birth is another risk factor.

In a 2018 anonymous study of female powerlifters conducted by the American College of Sports Medicine, it was found that 75% experienced Stress Urinary Incontinence when participating in their sport and at no other time. 

Despite these sky-high rates among weightlifters, there are repeated claims that "No, this isn't normal for women or anyone else" by laypeople online who sound very certain of themselves.  Say what?

IDK how you define "normal," but the usual description is some combination of "not pathological" (i.e. progressive, fatal or disabling) in the medical sense and "not rare" in the social sense.  You can be one and not the other, such as obese (a pathological majority) or gay (non-pathological minority) but these powerlifters' pee problem is neither harmful to health nor rare.  In other words, it's as normal as kicking your leg when your knee is hit with that tiny doctor's hammer.  If all women were powerlifters, 3/4th would wet themselves for a few seconds when they lifted regardless of whether they had pre-existing incontinence or not, whether they'd given birth, gone through menopause or whatever.  

How many would choose to wear protection is a different matter and, ultimately, a personal one.  If you've ever sneezed or gotten a bloody nose that dripped on the floor or furniture in a public space, congrats--you've spread more germs than someone who peed on the floor.  Ditto vomiting or coughing without covering your mouth.  People just find urine repulsive because it comes from the genital area and smells funky.  We're conditioned to find it nasty, but it's no more unhygienic than tears or saliva.  I agree that anyone who makes a mess in this way should clean it up after, but ffs please tone down the aggressive rhetoric.

To all the males whining about this and using borderline violent language condemning these absolute badass athletes:  how have you survived the men's bathroom all these years?  Urinals that reek of piss, walls and floors deliberately soaked in it, toilets backed up with shit and stall walls covered with brown smears.  Sinks full of chunky vomit & patrons who walk out of that stinkpit without washing their grubby hands.  It's little better in family homes, where men leave the seat up or soak the floor and rugs in urine and leave it for their poor wives or mothers to clean up with no shame.  🤮  If this isn't you, I guarantee you know at least one man like this and don't talk to him the way these bold trolls talk to these women.

I could go on but I'm starting to feel sick.  





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