Do you even lift WOMEN please read

Do you even lift 

Do you head straight for the treadmill to pound away at a constant pace for 40 minutes or so? Then, do you lift  a few rounds of lightweights? Finally, do you head to the mat to do a million sit ups?

Like most women you probably answered yes here. I understand, i’m a woman, I once thought this was the way to the perfect body. Sadly this failed miserably and I ended up 3 stone overweight!!

 most of us want to live in capable bodies and feel good while going about our day. In our workouts, we want to see results for our efforts. A prominent “celebrity trainer” insists that women should never lift more than 3 pounds (I WON’T GO INTO THIS BECAUSE SHE ANNOYS ME), which is like telling every mother never to carry their kids—ridiculous or what??   Many women are often terrified of looking manly that they are living in an unfit,weak body.

Its time time to change your ways! The type of training above  illustrates most women’s workout programs. They don’t want to get big and “bulky,” so they stick with  exercises they think burn the most calories and “tone” their muscles

If you’re reaching for a 1-2kg dumbell, it better be your warm-up.

Lift, Ladies!

This training regime may burn a few hundred calories during the cardio workout, and possibly a hundred more in the weights bit, but they won’t reshape how your bodies look. A complete body transformation cannot take place when you’re following the same old tired,dated training plan.

If you want that complete body transformation, you need to take action and start lifting heavy weights. You want to look good in that strapless pretty wedding dress, right?!?!?!

“But won’t I get bulky Claire?!?!

No! Heres some science stuff to explain.

Females dont have the testosterone levels to build mass.

Men have higher testosterone levels than women; women have higher estrogen levels than men. Compare testosterone levels in a man to the amount in a woman and you find a large gap. Why? Simply put, women don’t have testicles. The lion’s share of male testosterone comes from the testes.

Women do produce the hormone, but it comes from your ovaries and adrenal glands in smaller doses.

Testosterone is the primary muscle-building hormone in the body. Since women have significantly less of this hormone they cannot put on muscle mass as easily as men.

Stop worrying and start lifting, you will thank me later.

If you’re worried about bulking up, remember you don’t have enough testosterone.

Now that we’ve established that you’re not going to gain mass,  lets discuss some of the benefits of weight training.

Heavier weight offers women a higher metabolic rate. Since you work against a high degree of resistance with heavy weights, you create tiny muscular tears throughout the body. You will expend a greater number of calories post-workout to repair those tiny tears, thus increasing your overall calorie requirements.

Doesn’t a high metabolism sound like something that might help you achieve that goal?

If you’re looking to get lean, lifting weights expends considerably more calories than cardio.

The next benefit to lifting heavier weights is that you’ll see greater overall muscle definition. When you lift such a light weight as most women do, the muscles are barely worked.

Push yourself harder and take the weight up to the next level – that’s when you see muscle definition . Provided you also follow the correct nutrition for fat loss, heavy weights will create the greatest change to how your body looks.

One universal truth of the human body that helps explain many physical phenomena is that our biology is adaptive. Muscle makes your body more capable, and feeling more capable allows you to do more things in everyday life and in your workouts. Bringing a challenge to your physical self makes your body build itself stronger to meet the demand of whatever the next challenge might be. This adaption eventually delivers a feeling of confident movement that is like no other.

But we have to ask for it. And heavier weights are the answer!!!