Tuesday, March 29, 2022

5 Fitness Myths Debunked : 3) WOMEN WILL GET "BIG" IF THEY WEIGHT TRAIN :

3) WOMEN WILL GET "BIG" IF THEY WEIGHT TRAIN :

I love this one. Every girl who's seen a picture of a female bodybuilder thinks that they will transform into the Incredible Hulk if they weight train. I'll tell you this right now, those women, who I agree, look about as feminine as a cement truck, usually take performance enhancing drugs to get like that. They essentially develop a manly appearance because they're often taking male hormones. The fact that a woman's dominant hormone is estrogen makes becoming a gorilla with lipstick virtually impossible.


I encourage all women (barring any injuries or ailments that contraindicate it) to do some form of resistance or strength training. And the reason is that muscle raises our basal metabolic rate (BMR); the amount of calories we burn at rest, all day long. So the more muscle you have, the higher your BMR will be and the more fat you burn and avoid. Strength training also results in stronger tendons, ligaments and muscles (duh!) and helps maintain bone health, inhibits age related muscle loss, and improves insulin sensitivity.

The takeaway: be sure to do some kind of resistance training as part of your fitness program. And if you start looking like you could derail a freight train, I promise to quit my job and preach to trainers all over the world about how everything they thought they knew about women's fitness is wrong.

 

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