Myths About Women Exercise
September 5, 2009
There are many myths surrounding women fitness and working out. Mentioned below are busted out myths in this area; and the truth behind these myths:
1. Strength training will make you muscular and bulky:
Women’s body isn’t able to produce the hormone responsible for big muscles – testosterone as is the case with the male bodies. Women can’t develop muscles by just doing light or moderate weights. You might mention women body builders, but these women use synthetic testosterone and drugs to develop their muscles; besides they also spend hours sweating in the gym, lifting heavy weights. When women don’t use steroids and do weights, they develop a toned and strong body but not bulk.
2. Exercise expand the chest size:
Women breast are made of fatty tissues, hence your breast size won’t increase with weight training. There is a chance that you might lose inches from your chest area is your body fat is less than 12%. Weight training would increase the back size and not the cup size.
3. Strength training will make you stiff:
If strength training exercises are performed in the correct manner, it would help you build flexibility. Flyes, stiff-leg dead lifts, dumbbell press, chin-up, etc help you stretch your muscle in bottom range of the movement, which help you increase your stretching ability.
4. Weight training turn fat to muscles and muscles will turn into fat once weight training is stopped:
Fat and muscle tissues are extremely different kind of tissues. Once people stop weight training, they might drop muscle mass and their diet might also decrease. Definitely in this case muscles are lost and fat is accumulated.
5. You can eat and what you like till you exercise:
Our metabolism decides the amount of calories we burn. If we constantly consume more calories than we burn, we would end up gaining weight.
6. Women should do cardio, if they want to do weights, they should life very light weights:
While doing cardio we tend to burn both muscles and fats as fuel. To prevent loss of muscle mass we need to invest in weight training. Our bodies respond to resistance and when we use minimal weight, we wouldn’t be able to give the required resistance for building muscle mass.
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