Female strength training myths-BUSTED

MYTH#1 Lifting weights will make me bulky-Gosh this one i have been hearing year after year and it surprises me this one wont die.Ok so once n for all-LIFTING WEIGHTS WONT MAKE YOU BULKY LADIES.Due to the fact that women do not, and cannot, naturally produce as much testosterone (one of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain huge amounts of muscle mass by merely touching some weights.I know the image you get in your head when you think of a woman lifting weights that of a professional body builder but you have to understand that they are on strict diets supplements and anabolic steroids to achieve that bulk in their bodies.Ladies go lift weights it will burn your fat and give you that toned look 


MYTH#2 If you stop exercising your muscles will turn into fat
Its funny how this one refuses to die.this is like saying that gold can turn into brass. Muscle and fat are two totally different types of tissue. What happens many times is that when people decide to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to inactivity and also usually drop the diet as well. Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression that muscle is being turned into fat while in reality what is happening is that muscle is being lost and fat is being accumulated. 

MYTH#3 WOMEN ONLY NEED CARDIO AND IF YOU LIFT DO IT LIGHT
WRONG WRONG WRONG Women must train hard  One needs to do weights in order to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent any loss of muscle tissue. Women that only concentrate on cardio will have a very hard time achieving the look that they want. As far as the lifting of very light weights, this is just more nonsense. Muscle responds to resistance and if the resistance is too light, then there will be no reason for the body to change. 

MYTH 4#WEIGHT TRAINING TURNS FAT INTO MUSCLE
Ahem Ahem..can metal be turned into gold?he way a body transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight training and losing fat through cardio and diet simultaneously. Again, muscle and fat are very different types of tissue. We cannot turn one into the other.

MYTH 5-sLASHING CALORIES IS BEST WAY TO LOSE WEIGHT
Damn this is one of the biggest misakes you can make.If you go very low on the calories your body goes into a starvation mode.This mechanism, which is thought to have evolved as a defence against starvation, means the body becomes super efficient at making the most of the calories it does get from food and drink. It derives its calories from lean muscle tissues to protect its fat stores...shucks so less muscle mass which in turn lowers metabolic rate so that the body needs fewer calories to keep ticking over and weight loss slows down. Of course, this is the perfect solution if you're in a famine situation. But if you're trying to lose weight, it's going to do little to help you shift those unwanted pounds
So ladies dont cut back drastically on the calories..Lift right and get the desired body you want