[Effie_drine]

Many women believe that weight training will cause them to look masculine. Fortunately, this does not happen as easily as many women believe. Despite thousands of examples, some people still believe weights are not for women. That is fiction. The number of women using free weights in America has more than doubled in the past 10 years, from less than 8 million in 1988 to more than 17 million in 1999.

When it comes to weight training, women are getting the information they need, and they're using it. They're learning, for example, that a woman's muscles are capable of doing just about anything a man's can do, in terms of relative strength and growth.

Also, remember this: fat takes up five times as much space as muscle. This means if you replaced the fat on your legs with the same weight in muscle, your thighs get smaller, without losing a pound. Women (and men) worried about "bulking up" with weights need to understand this. It's your body composition that determines how you look. By replacing fat with muscle, you can make an astounding transformation without losing a lot of bodyweight. Women should actually be concerned about not having enough muscle, rather than having too much.

The bottom line is, any woman who is interested in losing fat, gaining strength, increasing muscle tone, and transforming her physique should be weight training.

[Liftingchic]

totally agree hun... nice article thanks for sharing it.