You should first know that no amount of physical activity
can give you your desired body if it is not coupled with
bodybuilding nutrition and a total body workout. Actually,
it is the bodybuilding nutrition that is the most vital
factor in building the best body.
Women's Weight Training Myth #1 - Weight training makes you
bulky.
Due to the fact that women do not and cannot naturally
produce as much testosterone (one of the main hormones
responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is
impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass.
Unfortunately, the image that may come to your mind is that
of professional female bodybuilders. Most of these women,
unfortunately, use anabolic steroids (synthetic
testosterone) along with other drugs in order to achieve
that high degree of muscularity.
In addition, most also have good genetics coupled with an
unbelievable work ethic that enable them to gain muscle
quickly when they spend hours in the gym lifting very heavy
weights. Believe me when I say that they do not look like
that by accident. Women who conduct weight training without
the use of steroids get the firm and fit cellulite-free
looking body that you see in most fitness/figure shows
these days.
Women's Weight Training Myth #2 - Exercise increases your
chest size.
Sorry girls. Womens breasts are composed mostly of fatty
tissue. Therefore, it is impossible to increase breast size
through weight training. As a matter of fact, if you go
below 12 percent body fat (which I do not recommend doing),
your breast size will decrease. Weight training does
increase the size of the back, so this misconception
probably comes from confusing an increase in back size with
an increase in cup size. The only way to increase your
breast size is by gaining fat or getting breast implants
Womens Weight Training Myth #3 - Weight training makes you
stiff and musclebound.
If you perform all exercises through their full range of
motion, flexibility will increase. Exercises like flyes,
stiff-legged deadlifts, dumbbell presses, and chin-ups
stretch the muscle in the bottom range of the movement.
Therefore, by performing these exercises correctly, your
stretching capabilities will increase.
Women's Weight Training Myth #4 - If you stop weight
training your muscles turn into fat.
This is like saying that gold can turn into brass. Muscle
and fat are two totally different types of tissue. What
happens many times is that when people decide to go off
their weight training programs they start losing muscle due
to inactivity (use it or lose it) and they also usually
drop the diet as well. Therefore bad eating habits combined
with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to
inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the
impression that the subjects muscle is being turned into
fat while in reality what is happening is that muscle is
being lost and fat is being accumulated.
Women's Weight Training Myth #5 - Weight training turns fat
into muscle.
More alchemy. This is the equivalent of saying that you can
turn any metal into gold; don't we wish! The way a body
transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight
training and losing fat through aerobics and diet
simultaneously. Again, muscle and fat are very different
types of tissue. We cannot turn one into the other.
Women's Weight Training Myth #6 - As long as you exercise
you can eat anything that you want.
How I wish this were true also! However, this could not be
further from the truth. Our individual metabolism
determines how many calories we burn at rest and while we
exercise. If we eat more calories than we burn on a
consistent basis, our bodies will accumulate these extra
calories as fat regardless of the amount of exercise that
we do. This myth may have been created by people with such
high metabolic rates (hardgainers) that no matter how much
they eat or what they eat, they rarely meet or exceed the
amount of calories that they burn in one day unless they
put their mind to doing so. Therefore, their weight either
remains stable or goes down.
Women's Weight Training Myth #7 - Women only need to do
cardio and if they decide to lift weights, they should be
very light.
First of all, if you only did cardio then muscle and fat
would be burned for fuel. One needs to do weights in order
to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent
any loss of muscle tissue. Women that only concentrate on
cardio will have a very hard time achieving the look that
they want. As far as the lifting of very light weights,
this is just more nonsense. Muscle responds to resistance
and if the resistance is too light, then there will be no
reason for the body to change.
Women Should Train Hard Myth #8 I have trained with girls
that train as hard as I do and they look nothing but
feminine. If you want to look great, don't be afraid to
pick up the weights and lift hard!
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expert Keishon Martin who writes for
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