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You Should Train With Weights

A desirable female physique is one that can only be achieved by moving some serious iron in the weight room!
The gyms are filled with women who pick up nothing heavier than their purse.
They think if they pick up some real weight that they’ll wake up the next morning looking like Arnold!

I always hear the same line over & over whenever I give weights to the ladies:
but I don’t want to have big muscles, I don’t to look like a man, I don’t want to get bulky etc…

But what about all the talk about weight training making women big and bulky?
First, it is physiologically impossible for you as a woman to put on large amounts of muscle mass. You’re body’s hormonal makeup is not one that will allow you to do so.

God never intended for women to look like men (go figure), so he made the chemistry of each gender’s respective bodies different.
Regardless of how you train, how often you train, how much protein you eat, etc, you’re not going to even come close to the big, bulky physique of a female bodybuilder.

You will never get Big or Bulky. End of Story

 

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But How Come There Are Female Bodybuilders Really Big & Manly?

The female bodybuilder look is only obtainable through Steroids (illegal drugs).
Because their natural hormonal profiles would never allow them to get that “big,” they resort to changing their body’s chemistry through the use of illegal drugs.

 

How Women Should Train

So here’s the main point of this article:
Training heavy with the right exercises is the proper way to strength train and it will get you the best aesthetic results. Period.

Since you now know that lifting pink dumbbells isn’t going to get you a lean, sexy and fit body, let’s discuss what you should be doing in the gym.
I have trained dozens of women and had them lifting hard and heavy, and that type of strength training had only improved their physiques.

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Training with heavy loads and low volume (sets x reps) is the best way to get hard and strong, but not big. Muscular hypertrophy is generally a response to a high volume work output; therefore, by keeping the sets and reps low with heavy training, you won’t have to fear getting overly big (this really isn’t even an issue due to the physiological reasons mentioned earlier).

 

So How Much I Want You To Lift?

It’s not important that you move big weights; what is important is that you are selecting and lifting loads that are heavy for you.
Over time, you will get stronger and the weight you can handle will increase.
So, for you as a female trainee, a “heavy” load can be defined as a weight that you can lift in good form for 6 repetitions.

 

Cheers for a Healthy Lifestyle,
Coach Eliane.

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Author: Eliane Bou Assy

I’m on a mission to educate, motivate and inspire people to live healthy 365 days a year through eating better food and moving more effectively. Make a difference, join me to live a “Healthy Lifestyle”.

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