Is It True What They Say About Weight Training For Women?

4 Myths About Weight Training For Women

Many women decide to stick with cardio programs because of myths they’ve heard about weight training for women.

Other women train and exercise with weights but are disappointed with their results because of what they believed to be true only to find out it wasn’t.

Let’s explore 4 myths that prevent people from achieving their fitness results.

1. “I don’t’ want to bulk up.”

This truly is a myth in that it’s impossible for women to get bulky regardless of how much weight lifting they do. It just isn’t going to happen. Why? Because to do so, requires a level of testosterone that is far above what women normally have – eight to 10 times more.

Even women bodybuilders have a hard time bulking up and many resort to taking steroids or testosterone supplements. Put that fear to rest and start lifting.

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2. “I don’t want to lift a lot of weight.”

As counter-intuitive as it may seem, weight lifting doesn’t necessarily mean lifting weight. Actually, it should be called resistance training as it can be done with anything that imposes an increasing demand on your muscles. Instead of weights, some people use resistance bands, which are just as effective and come in varying levels of resistance. The beauty of them is you can take them with you without adding much weight to your luggage – an important consideration when traveling by air today.

3. “I just want to tone up.”

Toning up in a specific area is the same as spot-reducing which is a myth in itself. It isn’t possible. What is possible though is to burn off some fat all over your body through cardio training and increasing the muscle size in that area slightly with strength training that targets those particular muscles, therefore making you look as if you just toned up.

4. “I want to turn fat into muscle.”

Because muscle cells and fat cells are completely different, it’s impossible to convert one into the other. What can happen, as noted in the previous myth, is that you do both cardio and weight lifting, you will burn fat and add a little muscle at the same time making it look like you indeed did turn fat into muscle.

The other is also not true -if you stop exercising muscle will turn to fat. Here you’re losing muscle mass (from non-use) and adding fat from eating more calories than you’re burning.

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Women can, and should, lift weights. It builds strength, helps you lose weight, improves sleep, sex, and so much more. Whether you use free weights, weight machines or resistance bands, the point is to mix in at least two days (non-consecutively) into your workout schedule to get the body you desire or the body back that you once had.

Conflicting information is everywhere about weight training for women! And there’s more than the 4 myths mentioned above.  To get the real truth, download my free report Strength Training Myths For Women.