Myth 1: Weight training makes women too muscular.
There are many reasons why this myth is completely untrue. The main reason, and the one I'm going to focus on, is testosterone. Testosterone is the hormone found in both men and women that is the main contributing factor in the development of muscle mass in addition to many other things. Without the proper amount of testosterone production, no one (neither male nor female,) is going to get significantly bigger from lifting weights.
There are many reasons why this myth is completely untrue. The main reason, and the one I'm going to focus on, is testosterone. Testosterone is the hormone found in both men and women that is the main contributing factor in the development of muscle mass in addition to many other things. Without the proper amount of testosterone production, no one (neither male nor female,) is going to get significantly bigger from lifting weights.
Generally speaking, men produce ten times the amount of testosterone as women. For this reason, women don't have much of a chance of getting as big as guys from lifting weights. As far as the women that appear in the bodybuilding magazines, I think it's pretty safe to say that they are using some form of chemical enhancement to increase testosterone production in order to achieve that look.
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