So if you are a descendant of Venus and yet you want to be firm, strong and healthy, follow these weight training guides:
Work Harder Men's anatomical structure is different from those of women. While men can easily firm up their body through simple weight training, you cannot. Women need to work harder compared to men in order to achieve the same results. While this is clearly unfair, you can blame hormones and body electrolytes for this.
Keep the Training Balanced What is the concentration of your training? Do you concentrate on you upper body, your legs, or your butt? Balance is the key. Work on every part of your body. There is no use having a perfect-toned leg if your butt sags like hell. The same is true to the general workout of your body. Are you improving your stamina or your strength? Balance these things as well as you are after a total body wellness, not a weight lifting competition.
Eat Well You need to put back the energy you lost during weight training. Eat right and eat only the foods that will help you in your weight training. Do not eat anything just because you are hungry. If you do this, you will lose the very purpose of your weight training. Some women would just slack off after a hard day of weight training, do not be like them. Keep on your training and keep the protein in your food coming.
Burn More Fats Ever heard no pain, no gain? If you are weight training you need to burn fats consistently. Play by the numbers. The more leg exercise you do, the better those legs would be. As you burn fat your muscles become firmer and more toned.
Big Tree Trainings In the world of body building they have what they call the big tree exercises. You don't need to go the park to do this. If you are on weight training, then its time for you to do some deadlifts, squats and the bench presses. Do this religiously and you will impress, even yourself.
Have a Regular Workout Habit Having a regular workout habit makes you disciplined. It also makes your muscles and body adjusted to the task. If you set your mind towards the goal of having a sexier and firmer body, you whole body will follow. Try doing your weight training on a regular basis, not only when you feel it. Have a regular schedule and don't break it. If decided to workout every other day, then work out every other day.
Set Goals Goals will keep you focused, and nothing is impossible for focused women undergoing a good weight training plan. If you want to lose fat by training then focus on achieving that goal. Goal keeps us on track and we are on track we can accomplish anything.
So ladies, what can weight training do for you? Weight training will give you near-perfect symmetry and put curves and definition in all the right places. Muscle is firm and toned, not soft and mushy. Muscle gives you strength, health, vitality and a beautiful body. Also, weight training will decrease your chance of injuries in everyday life and recreational activities. Weight training improves work, sleep, endurance, sex and many other areas of your life.
Myth #1: Women Must Train Differently Then Men
BUSTED: Training for ladies shouldn't differ that much from men's training. Women have the same number of muscles and they contact in the same fashion. The only difference between men and women are hormones.
Men naturally have higher levels of testosterone, a muscle-building hormone, while women are constantly fighting the estrogen issue, a fat storing hormone. Now I'm not saying that just because you are female and have higher levels of estrogen you are doomed to gain weight. What I'm saying is that we can use what you have to your advantage.
Regular weight training will build lean body mass. The more body lean body mass you acquire, the higher you raise your metabolism. An increased metabolism results in more calories burned per minute. Sounds interesting? Read on....
Myth #2: Muscle Weighs More Than Fat
BUSTED: A statement I hear a lot is that muscle weighs more than fat. The fact of the matter is that a pound of muscle and a pound of fat weigh the same, a pound. A pound of muscle is more dense and takes up less space than a pound of fat does.
Muscle allows you to eat more food without getting fat because muscle is the only body material that is metabolically active. Once you put muscle on your body you will burn an additional twenty to thirty calories an hour. Bodybuilders actually burn fifty to seventy-five additional calories per hour.
Myth #3: Muscle Turns to Fat
BUSTED: A misconception that I hear many women saying is that they don't want to workout because if they stop the muscle will turn to fat. Now, let's analyze this statement. People begin resistance training program in order to rid the body of fat, not to gain it. Muscle can't turn into fat any more than fat can turn to muscle. Muscle (metabolically active) and fat (metabolically inactive) are two completely different tissues responsible for their own functions. Just as your heart and liver are two different organs performing completely different functions, the same goes for muscle and fat. Now I ask you, can your heart turn into your liver, or vise versa? If there were any truth to the above statement there would be a lot of people out there with great muscle potential, if you catch my drift.
An explanation to the above myth is that some bodybuilders do gain extra weight off-season in preparation for the up coming competitive season. Many veterans of bodybuilding gain weight when they get older or retire, how does that differ from the average American?
There is a biological reason for the weight gain. The metabolism slows down as we age, meaning the body needs fewer calories per day to maintain itself. The downfall is that most people, including bodybuilders, don't reduce their caloric intake to compensate for this slowdown and the end result is fat gain.
Another explanation is that bodybuilders, in hard training, develop enormous appetites and need the extra calories for muscle growth and repair. If the intake stays the same when training volume is reduced or ceased, the unburned calories get stored as fat; again, this is no different than the average American.
Stop Making Excuses
Simply put, stop making excuses. Not exercising is far more harmful to your body, image, and health than working out. Exercising and nutrition is a learned lifestyle, if you are not consistent with it you will decrease muscle and increase fat, but muscle definitely will never turn into fat.
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