5 Reasons Why Women Won't Turn Into Muscle-Bound Freaks From Lifting Weights!

5 Reasons Why Women Won't Turn Into Muscle-Bound
Freaks From Lifting Weights!

By Kyle Battis

 

     "But I don't want to put on a lot of muscle,
I just want to get toned."

I have heard this SO many times it doesn't even
phase me when women say it to me during an initial
consultation. 

For whatever reason, many of these women have been
misled into thinking that resistance training will
have negative effects on their physiques.

Quite the contrary, and in fact, I'll explain to
you why you should be lifting weights if you want
the lean body that you are looking for. 

Read on and learn 5 reasons why you won't turn
into a muscle-bound freak from lifting weights. 


1. Women have 10-20 times LESS testosterone (the
male sex hormone) than men do.  It is very difficult
for females to experience high levels of muscle
hypertrophy (increase in the cross-sectional size of
a muscle) for this and many other reasons. 

2. For women to bulk up to the levels seen in popular
fitness magazines the use of artificial anabolic
steroid injections is required.

3. Many female Powerlifters, Olympic Weightlifters,
Figure Skaters, Ballerinas, Fitness Models, Dancers,
and Olympic athletes already include intense
resistance training in their programs with no such
results.  In fact, these athletes are some of the
leanest and most beautiful women in the world.

4. Another factor that is essential for putting on
muscle mass is an excess of calories throughout the
course of the day.  Bodybuilders truly realize how
difficult it is to put on muscle mass and despite
their best efforts in the gym and a surplus of
thousands of calories every day, they still find it
difficult to put on lean muscle mass.  Why is it
then, that so many females new to exercise believe
that they will explode into muscle-bound freaks as
soon as they pick up a weight?  The answer is simply
bad information spread by misinformed individuals.  

5. The benefits of weight training include an increase
in your resting metabolic rate (which leads to greater
fat-burning potential!), increase bone density
(prevention of Osteopenia and Osteoporosis), an
improved body composition (what some people call
“Toning” and muscle definition), a smaller dress
size, improved insulin resistance, and a myriad of
other benefits! 

I believe that is essential for every female, whether
adolescent, middle-aged, or oldest-of-the-old to be
involved in some sort of progressive resistance
training routine!  A properly designed resistance
training routine can help you achieve the results that
you seek! 

Hopefully theses 5 reasons will open your eyes to
the real benefits of resistance training.  Now, go
hit the gym and start lifting some weights and you
will be moving in the right direction towards a
leaner, healthier physique.