Strength training is not only for guys anymore as gals can do it too

In the past, people believe that strength training is only of guys since it makes men bulkier.  Gals don’t want to have a bulky body, they try to stay away from strength training as much as possible, but as time flies by, more people got into strength training and soon even women are into strength training as well.  They found out that strength training is an effective way to not only lose weight, but help them to become stronger.   At last, women now know that strength training won’t make them bigger since it has something to do with the genetic makeup of the body.

Women in their old age

Women become weaker and lose muscle mass when they reach 50.  Studies claimed that women loses around a pound of muscle mass each year and this decreases the capacity to burn calorie each day.   That is why; it is important for a woman to do strength training as it builds muscle needed in burning calories.  A women on their fifties need to lift weight at least twice a week for them to maintain their strength.  

The benefits that women doing some strengthen not only include strengthening their muscle, but there are other benefits that they could get.  Here are the benefits that they can expect from performing strength training regularly:

• Helps them to stabilize their blood sugar.
•  Helps them to maintain their blood pressure better.
• It decreases cholesterol level.
• Helps them to balance well, reducing the occurrence of injury.
• Women exercising tend to become more confident.
• Reduces the occurrence of arthritis and back pains.

You need to remember that muscles are overloaded, so that it could create tiny tear in the muscle ligaments, but don’t fret over it since it automatically repairs itself whenever you are asleep.  Also, there is not enough testosterone present in a woman to build those bulky muscles like that of a man.  That only means that you don’t need to fret after performing some heavy weight lifting since there is no way that you would gain huge muscles like that of a man.  

What to do?

Find someone that could help you create a exercises program fit for a woman.