After a hard workout with weights, your body can feel like you ran a hundred miles uphill through ankle-deep sludge. You’ll feel the burn in your muscles and sometimes, it can reach the point to where you might start wondering why you even keep going. But there’s relief at hand for you for those times …
Unfortunately, some women may consider muscle building or strength training to be an activity exclusively meant for men. However nothing can be further from the truth. Weight training is any strength training exercise where weights are used for resistance. It’s a fact that women who perform weight training enjoy better health and often improve the …
Weight training is a wonderful way to increase your functionality, self-confidence, and overall quality of life. You most likely have your own personal reason for beginning this journey. You might be looking to improve your physical appearance, become stronger and more able to perform everyday tasks or maybe improve your performance in a sport or …
No. You won’t magically wake up one day and look like one of those juiced out bodybuilders on the front of muscle magazines. Luckily, the “I just don’t want to get too bulky” argument from women in regards to lifting weights is slowly going to the wayside. Maybe it’s the droves of scientific information that …
So you’ve been a little bit too lazy in last couple of months and you finally decided to change something about your physical activities? You don’t want to become a “couch potato” and you know you can do much better than just looking like a grumpy overweight person right? And so right now you want …
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Women tend to avoid strength training. There are many reasons why, and the vast majority of those reasons are based in myth and preconceptions about what strength training is and what it does to a female body. You’ll burn calories and fat while you work out, after you work out, and your metabolism becomes faster, …
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Strength training exercises refer to routines like weight lifting, push-ups, leg presses, dumbbell exercises, etc. Basically, strength training exercises are those that get progressively more difficult as you do them. The idea behind the exercises is that they help you break down your muscles so that they can rebuild themselves bigger and stronger. A lot …
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When it comes to exercising, many of us are always trying to find the perfect solution to every problem. We don’t like our legs, so we look for the way to fix it. We don’t like our arms, so we look up ways to get the perfect arms. Unfortunately, there’s no clear cut way of …
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Weight training is sometimes regarded as the type of exercise reserved only for the young and fit. If you’re middle-aged or beyond and want to get into shape, perhaps you might have asked yourself, “Am I too old to start lifting weights?” However, exercsing with weights is important throughout your life and possibly even more …
The Benefits Of Strength Training For Women Over the years, researchers have made compelling arguments on the benefits of strength training, or weight lifting, for people of all ages and gender. Yet, the number of women who do strength training remains quite low. Only one fifth of females do any form of strength training two …
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