Don't FEAR....The Weights or Making Muscle

 

✿If you’re looking to tone up, you may be wondering whether strength-training exercises will make you look big and bulky. Not to worry: Women’s bodies don’t produce as much of the growth-producing hormone testosterone as men's do. Men produce up to 30 times more testosterone, which is why they’re able to build larger muscle mass. Back in the 1980s, you might have been discouraged from weight-training by women bodybuilders who looked extremely muscular. But remember, they followed a very different kind of training program and achieved “he-men” looks with steroid supplements. 

There’s a chance your body builds muscle mass quickly – more than the average woman – but this tendency can help you reach your goals sooner. And even if you are a fast muscle-grower, your muscles adapt to your level of activity and intensity of your workouts, meaning rapid growth will slow down in the absence of bodybuilder training. If you stick to core exercises and strength training, I promise your muscles will only become firmer, sexier and shapelier – not bulkier.

I am petite and I am lucky that my body builds muscle mass quickly, but even then it took a lot of heavy lifting and training to get the little bit of mass I had to be able to compete as a bodybuilder. I always tell women this so they don't get scared off from using weights or adding strength training to there workouts. It's extremely hard for a women to gain large amounts of muscle mass and the women who do gain it, work very hard for it. Mainly because they compete in bodybuilding and in the off season as a bodybuilder you gain as much muscle mass (weight) as you can. So when it's time to diet down you'll have enough mass to chisel your body fat off and uncover a muscle master piece. This is not the norm for most women or what women need to worry about if they strength train. Strength training and using weights is a big plus and becomes a bigger plus as we become older. It keeps our bodies in shape, firm, toned and keeps our body strong and youthful. 

There are so many other amazing benefits from strength training and one of the biggest and most important benefits is that using weights in your workouts will keep our bodies burning throughout the day. Though cardio burns more calories than strength training during those 30 sweaty minutes, pumping iron slashes more overall and torches your body for the after-burn effect up to 24 hours after your workout is done. If you've ever tried to ditch the saddlebags and ended up a bra size smaller instead, you know that where you lose is as important as how much. As great as it might be to see the numbers on the scale go down, when you're on a strict cardio-only program your victory is likely to be empty

A recent study compared dieters who lifted three times a week with those who did aerobic exercise for the same amount of time. Both groups ate the same number of calories, and both lost the same amount—26 pounds—but the lifters lost pure chub, while about 8 percent of the aerobicizers' drop came from valuable muscle. Researchers have also found that lifting weights is better than cardio at whittling intra-abdominal fat. Pickup a dumbbell and get to it ladies.. You're super fit, firm, sexy body is waiting for just for you...   #Live2Lift ♡#Lift2Live   ✿