Women’s Personal Trainer in Washington, DC Uncovers Why Lifting Heavy Weights Makes Women Shrink, Not Grow

November 10, 2009 by Josef Brandenburg
Filed under Lose Weight

If you’re a woman and you like to work out, you’ve probably heard this admonition, right? “Don’t lift heavy weights unless you want to bulk up.” However, nothing could be further from the truth. A personal trainer DC-based fitness expert tells us exactly what DOES happen when women lift weights — and why it’s absolutely not possible for women to bulk up when they do lift heavy weights.

Why is it impossible for women to build up muscles like men in spite of lifting heavy weights?

For one, women don’t have as much of the hormone testosterone as men do. With only a fraction (15 to 20 times less) of the testosterone amount men have, women simply can’t build the kind of bulky muscles men can. Which is perfectly okay, and it’s therefore also perfectly okay for women to lift heavy weights, assuming health, physical condition, etc., makes this safe to do so.

The truth about what will happen when women lift heavy weights?

Women will not develop bulk muscle but instead will only get toned even if they lift weights, the reason being that they possess small amounts of testosterone in their body. So they get to build all of the muscles without having to keep the mass.

* The more the repetitions the more the muscle bulk, but most women limit themselves to few reps.

Men use heavier weights and do a higher number of reps when they lift weights. Women on the other hand use lighter weights and do fewer reps which only results in building strength and not volume.

* Heavy weights build strength, not size.

Women get strength and not bulk muscle by lifting weights. Women get muscle strength and neurological improvement because while lifting weights the nervous system is stressed as much as the muscles, but there is no increase in the size.

* Lifting heavy weights benefits you in more ways than one, as a woman.

Now that all your doubts regarding weightlifting and bulk in women have been clarified, you have every reason to take up lifting heavy weights, provided your health and physical conditions allow it.

If you are avoiding lifting heavy weights, you’re doing yourself a disservice because lifting heavy weights can do several positive things for you. It strengthens muscles, to be sure, but it also makes connective tissues and bones stronger, too. And that can help you avoid problems that can occur as you get older, especially diseases like osteoporosis.

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