Blondie_Bombshell
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I often speak with women who are fearful of lifting more weight because they do not want to get large muscles.
I explain to them that it’s almost impossible for women to gain muscle mass like men can because of the lack of the amount of the sex hormone testosterone that creates this growth of muscle.
Since women do not produce enough testosterone, the likelihood of getting large muscles is virtually impossible. And the benefit of weight lifting far exceeds any chance of gaining a ton of muscle.
Women that you see on TV or in magazines with large, man-like muscles, either use muscle-enhancing substances (steroids) or they naturally produce more testosterone than most women.
It is very difficult for women to grow large muscles.
You must strive to continuously increase your weights lifted over time. Muscle will only grow if it is forced, or coerced, into growing. You force it by lifting progressively heavier weight.
Muscle growth is simply a result of placing demand on your body. When you lift a weight that is heavier than you are used to, your body will start to add muscle to handle the extra demand (weight) you are placing on it. As you continually lift heavier weights over a long period of time, your body will continue to adapt to the additional demand being placed on it, by growing more muscle.
If you continuously lifted the same amounts of weight over time, the body would become used to that weight and new muscle growth would not need to occur. It has no reason to add more muscle because the muscle you currently have can handle the demand. When you start lifting more weight, then your body needs new muscle to handle this additional demand, creating new lean muscle tissue to handle this demand.
Any new and additional muscle growth you achieve will have a direct impact on the number of calories you burn. That is a huge benefit of weight lifting. The more muscle mass you have, the more fat you burn.
So, for long term success in weight loss and fitness, continue to lift progressively heavier weights as you continue on in your program.
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I explain to them that it’s almost impossible for women to gain muscle mass like men can because of the lack of the amount of the sex hormone testosterone that creates this growth of muscle.
Since women do not produce enough testosterone, the likelihood of getting large muscles is virtually impossible. And the benefit of weight lifting far exceeds any chance of gaining a ton of muscle.
Women that you see on TV or in magazines with large, man-like muscles, either use muscle-enhancing substances (steroids) or they naturally produce more testosterone than most women.
It is very difficult for women to grow large muscles.
You must strive to continuously increase your weights lifted over time. Muscle will only grow if it is forced, or coerced, into growing. You force it by lifting progressively heavier weight.
Muscle growth is simply a result of placing demand on your body. When you lift a weight that is heavier than you are used to, your body will start to add muscle to handle the extra demand (weight) you are placing on it. As you continually lift heavier weights over a long period of time, your body will continue to adapt to the additional demand being placed on it, by growing more muscle.
If you continuously lifted the same amounts of weight over time, the body would become used to that weight and new muscle growth would not need to occur. It has no reason to add more muscle because the muscle you currently have can handle the demand. When you start lifting more weight, then your body needs new muscle to handle this additional demand, creating new lean muscle tissue to handle this demand.
Any new and additional muscle growth you achieve will have a direct impact on the number of calories you burn. That is a huge benefit of weight lifting. The more muscle mass you have, the more fat you burn.
So, for long term success in weight loss and fitness, continue to lift progressively heavier weights as you continue on in your program.
www.fitnessparadiseworld.com
