Women - Lifting weights makes you bulky....
No it doesn't!!!
This is a common question from females when they first start to lift weights, due to them worrying about looking manly. Ladies you have nothing to worry about, apart from the benefits of changing your bodies for the better.
For any male or female it takes a lot of blood sweat and tears to build muscle. You must eat at a calorie surplus for a extended period of time and work incredibly hard in the gym. I'm not saying you don't work hard but if you're just starting out your very unlikely going to be lifting weights 5 times a week and when you do it's still incredibly hard.
Ladies as well you're lack of natural testosterone gives you one hell of a disadvantage if becoming bulky was one of your life time ambitions.
But you're desire to tone up is something that lifting weights is essential for to help gain that tightness. To tone up you must decrease your body fat and increase muscle tissue. The only way to do that is to lift weights in a controlled manner.
Cardio can be added but this shouldn't be the base of your programme and is only a tool to be used to increase your energy deficit when trying to lose fat or can be performed outside of the gym as long as it doesn't have negative effects on the toning goal.
Mix up your training and just see the benefits of,
- Improved posture
- Improved muscle definition
- And strength
Say goodbye to the hour long cardio sessions and train smarter to see a far greater return on results.
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Tom
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