Five myths regarding Strength Training for women

If you have been doing strength training for more than a year now, then you have heard some myths regarding strength training.   Perhaps, you don’t know that this is a myth yet, and thinks that they are true.  Some myths are just for males, while there are some that are for females.   Anyway, this article is about the myth of strength training for females, so you would have read about the subject a lot here.

Some women tend to avoid strength training because they don't know what is real and what are myths in strength training.

Naturally, the main goal of the article is to dispel some of the old myths regarding female that discourages them to do strength training.   Here are some myths that you might have heard before, but might not know that they are just myths:

1.  Female tend to grow big muscles just like men if they do strength training –  The fact of the matter is that science doesn’t support this.  Women don’t have enough testosterone to grow huge muscles.   Testosterone is the hormone that builds muscles and study says that men do have lots of this hormone, making them to grow larger than women.  If you see a woman with huge muscles then you can bet on it that she is using some muscle growth enhancing drugs.
2.  Do 10 to 20 reps to make sure that your muscle won’t grow that big –  Experts say that this is the exact opposite that you need to do if you want to minimize muscle growth.  This heavy weight/lower rep scheme has been proven time and time again.  It helps to train the nervous system and not the muscular system. Heavy loads helps increase the bone density.
3. Most trainers know what they are talking about – Just remember that anyone could be a trainer, as long as they are fit themselves.  There is no such a thing as a license to be a trainer.  The fact of the matter is that most trainers are not well-educated regarding training their clients.  They just want to satisfy the wants of the clients, so they give them the old “3 sets of 10-12 rep schemes on a circuit of weight training machines.  This makes the client happy since they don’t have to work that much, but they aren’t getting the results they wanted.
4. You won’t gain weight if you do strength training even if you eat lots of food – Everyone would gain weight if they eat too much and this applies to people, who do strength training regularly. The fat of the matter is that you need to need to control the calorie intake, so it would be easier for the body to lose weight. There is an old saying that goes like “you can't out-train poor nutrition."
5. Training with machines would be better for women since it is safer – This is the most inaccurate myth of them all as a machine doesn’t exercise all the body parts.  This myth started since machine manufacturers want to sell more of their machines.  Machines dictates the movements of the person, so you can’t expect to have a compete workout with it.