Biggest Weight Training for Women Myth

Here it is. The ultimate myth related to weight training for women.

Lifting Weights Will Make You Bulky and too Muscular

I hear this one all the time. I hear it from my own family! My sister told me she runs every day and when I asked her if she ever lifts, she replied “Oh no, I don’t want to get soccer player legs.” I was pretty dumbfounded as she was a former soccer player, and don’t soccer players have great legs?

Women see a few professional female bodybuilders on TV and somehow this makes them terrified that touching a weight will make them similarly bulky and veiny. And in doing so completely gloss over how those women came to look like that. Whether you appreciate that “look” or loathe it, you should atleast be aware (and maybe grudgingly appreciate) of the sheer amount of effort and discipline it takes to achieve.

1. Bodybuilders of both genders also tend to spend hours per day in the gym doing enormously high volume routines that are designed to help pump them up. Not planning on spending 4 hours per day in the gym? Great, you have nothing to worry about.

2. Pro body builders also take part in severe dietary measures. You know what makes them look as “cut” as they appear on TV? Seriously low, often unhealthy, levels of body fat. As they get close to important competition dates they put themselves through ruthless diets to get their body fat percentages down way below what even the best looking and healthiest women would normally have. A healthy female does not usually have a body fat percentage down to 5 or 6% without almost starving herself like the body builders do before competitions as they work hard to almost completely delete their subcutaneous fat so that the muscles “show” better. Their body fat percentages are so low in fact, that they are not maintainable and those women (and their male counterparts too) will cycle back up to a healthier level of body fat out of competition.

3. Without condemning every bodybuilder, in general, as a woman, you will never have enough testosterone (male hormone for muscular growth) in your body to ever develop the muscle mass that body builder pros have acquired unless you take anabolic steroids or steroid-like supplements.

Is it definitely time to start shifting the paradigm of feminine beauty away from the cocaine shic look of the 80s and to healthy-looking athletic bodies. A strength training program will not take away any of your femininity. The men will not look at you as “one of the guys”, but they will still be looking at you. It might be safe to say that most men really like looking at a woman that is physically fit, stands upright and tall and looks confidently good in her body. One of my best friends absolutely loves all the attention she gets in the gym.

So ladies, rest assured that unless you set out to become a bodybuilder, you aren’t going to end up looking like one. Ultimately our body chemistries just don’t support the growth of massive muscles! This popular myth is just a myth, and should no longer keep you from reaping all the benefits of weight training.

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