Women in armwrestling – the stereotypes 12:00 12/06/2013 They suffer from the same rumors and stereotypes over and over again. They are treated with distance and suspicion, especially by the men who fear being beaten by a woman. How do they find themselves in armwrestling? Not what you were looking for? Search for other text. Armwrestling takes femininity from women – some say. But is it only a man ’ s sport? According to Marta Opalińska, a Polish armwrestler, this is just another stereotype. Women fear strength training, because they don ’ t want to grow too much muscle, which is a misconception. – says Marta. We train with weights specifically for armwrestling, we build some muscle, but we keep within weight categories and keep our female shapes. We are no mutants, that is just stereotype and should be totally ignored. Thanks to weights we make our bodies more firm, and machine training shapes our bodies. In Poland, arwrestling and weightlifting are dominated by men. It’s very