WOMEN AND WEIGHTS








In the last 5 years research has shown that weight training for women is a great way to boost and maintain weight loss, increase your metabolism and provide you with greater muscle tone and shape.

There are a number of different myths surrounding women and weights, 2 of these main myths are:

1. Muscle weighs more than fat, so I will gain more weight instead of losing it.

2. Ill gain so much muscle that ill end up looking like a female version of Arnold Schwarzenegger!

Although both of these myths do hold some element of fact they are far removed from the actual truth!

Myth Buster 1:

Muscle does weigh more than fat! But weight training combined with aerobic exercise will increase your muscle mass which will result in increasing your metabolism. The more muscle you have the more fat you will burn.

Fad diets in the short term enable you to drop a lot of weight fast, but in the long term you can actually put on more weight than when you first started, as you have not only lost body fat but muscle mass as well, which means you have now lowered you metabolism even further then before.

Myth Buster 2:

Yes, if you did gain a lot of muscle you would end up looking like a female version of Arni. Lucky for women this cant happen without unnatural help. By this I mean, that muscle gain is generated through testosterone levels. Although women do have testosterone present in their systems they only have low levels of it.

Low testosterone prevents women from gaining loads of muscle mass. Women who weight train, gain body tone and shape rather than body size.

In conclusion, weight training for females shouldnt be something extra that you do but it should be included in your training program, you ll finish up having muscle tone and body shape, plus you ll be able to lose weight and maintain your weight loss.

Effective weight training comes from constantly changing your program every 4-6 weeks as your body tends to get used to the stimulus.