Women and Weights
Hi Ladies, no I haven’t forgotten you, good on you for starting!
Women can tone and firm up muscles by using a weight lifting exercise routine.
Before you start throwing weights around, ask yourself what are my goals, become a ‘yummy’ mummy, run a marathon, compete as a fitness model, or just lose a few pounds and get some energy back into your life. Write your goals down, are they realistic, make sure that they are as nothing sucks enthusiasm out of you more than not hitting your goals, by missing workouts or cheating a bit on the diet, but if your new routine has you up at 5.30 am working out for an hour everymorning and eating like rabbit, chances are you’ll slip up and lose motivation. Start off small and steady, cut out having a treat everynight with your coffee, make some healthy choices in what you eat, fit into your life three 30 minute blocks where you can do your workout, do two 15 minute workouts if you need too, you just have to make it work for you. Try and fit some walking into your lifestyle too, we all need to be more active daily the health benefits are massive.
Don’t worry about turning into a female version of Arnie, women don’t have the genetics or testostorne for that to happen(well most of them) and even the ones who do still need to train for hours and hours daily, as do male bodybuilders to get huge. If you start off with light weights and only do 5-8 different exercises and only do 3 sets of that exercise for between 8-12 repetitions that will get you underway. You can buy a set of weights to use, new or 2nd hand it doesn’t matter perhaps for a start use a can of fruit out of the pantry as a weight and work up from there. The good thing about weight training is that its speeds up your metabolism which burns fat up, one pound of muscle burns up to 50 calories per day, and after a workout your body releases endorphins which make you feel happy and relaxed.
Another plus of working out is that it is great for strengthening your bones and ligaments which can be crucial to good health when you’re older, it helps with your balance and movement in general. When is the best time to do exercise, when you can fit it in, a lot of people try and do it in the morning, to get it out of the road, get the day off to a great start, the kids are still asleep but if you can’t do your routine till night time do it then whatever works. So whether its Fat Loss or muscle building your after, get going. Just get started!
Thats enough info for a start, I’ll be posting more details later and don’t forget to post comments or questions
cheers Brendan