She laughs, or maybe she's so focused on the increasingly-less-comfortable weight that what emits registers more as a genial pant.

"I hardly think I'd be any competition! On-and-off as my stuff's been, against somebody who's been doing this full time."

Not impossible he'd find use in it (small weights, more reps), but she can't imagine it's likely. "You ask everyone that, or has heavy shit won something over?"