| Why Women Need Weight Lifting. For some reason women think weight training is not for them, that they will get these huge bulky muscles. Well is can be no further from the truth. Weight training is a must if you want to get into your best shape ever. Cardio exercise is great for your cardiovascular system and will help you shed pounds but to see your body change shape and become lean you will need to start lifting weights. Weight training will also help you fight off obesity. As you add muscle from strength training your resting metabolic rate will increase so you will burn more calories throughout the day. Weight training is also great for increasing bone density to help prevent osteoporosis and will help reduce risk of diabetes. Weight training is good for so many things that I strongly suggest that you try it. Don't be afraid and pick up those weights. Do your body good. You will love the way you look and feel. For more information You can read the following news letter about weight training. |
| Body Compostion: Women who slowly and modestly gain more muscle will change thier body compostion. Such women will have more lean body mass and less fat. If you're one of these women, you'll look a lot better. Now here's another key point and it's closely related to the fear of getting too big. Muscle weighs more than fat. Training will srengthen and reshape a women's body and she may weigh slighly more than before she stared training. However the scale weight is not nearly as significant as a woman's body composition. Indeed an untrained or improperly trained women weighing 130 lbs may be 30% body fat, almost 40 lbs of fat. The same properly trained women may weigh 132 lbs but with only 20% body fat and she'll look terrific! Women who are effectively training should not simply depend on the scale. If you need to have your progress quantified aside from the increase in strength you'll be showing consider having body fat measurements done every month or so. That's where you'll notice some meaningful difference. ( Your local gym or doctor can do that test for you or you can purchase a body fat tester at your local sporting goods store) |