“I don’t want to work out lifting weights because I don’t want to build big muscles “or “I just do aerobics and sit ups to lose weight because if I lift weights, I may build muscle and look like a man.”
Ladies, have you made these comments before? Awww… c’mon ladies, if you have ever uttered these words, you have just done a terrible disservice to yourself and are missing out on many great benefits that working out with weights can give you. Have you ever pointed to your belly or butt and sweetly proclaimed, “I want lose weight here.” So managed to convince yourself that sweating profusely is the answer to a slim and beautiful body and you hit the gym day in and day out just to sweat off your tummy or butt fats!
So you peddle away on your stationary bike in the gym just like little hamsters or frantically stepping away on the step up machine and then you woefully do crunches after crunches in the hope of having a flat belly and a well rounded shapely butt not realizing that there is no such thing as spot reduction.
You never even bother take a look at the weight lifting machines or the free weights lying everywhere in the gym not to say even touching those weights. Gosh, this terrible myth of building big muscles on women is creating so much fear in women causing them never to train with weights at their detriment.
True, weight training should be part of a woman’s excercise routine. Many dislike it because they know when they convert fat to muscle they don’t technically lose weight.
Correct, but one thing to keep in mind is that muscle is 20% smaller than the same weight in fat. So while the scale might not change, if you use a tape measure you should see an improvement.