Building lean and toned muscles is NOT just for men, women should be doing this too. When I recommend weight training to the female species, the most common concern I hear is… “but I don’t wana become huge like those body builder dudes!”. Haha yeah… if ONLY it were that easy. I am going to reveal a crucial muscle building tip but before I do, I need to mitigate this ridiculous myth that, seeds fear into women’s minds.
Lifting weights will NOT make you huge naturally… women have too much estrogen in their bodies to allow such rapid and massive muscle growth. If you care… the only real way for women to get ‘big’ is by injecting testosterone and taking drugs that inhibit estrogen levels at the same time.
But I doubt any of you are considering this option anytime soon…
So WHY should you work on having some muscle tone with weight training? Because muscles increase your metabolic rate… even at rest! And we all know what a high metabolic rate leads to… fat loss.
Ok now how do we go about doing this? Will weight lifting help build muscle? Yes… but if you want proper efficiency then you need to make sure you are lifting PROPERLY.
Let’s take the bicep curl as an example. You grab a dumbbell, lift it and then lower it. What part of this movement actually helps you BUILD muscle?
If you guessed the lifting part, then you my friend… are WRONG! Lifting a weight makes your muscles CONTRACT. It’s like taking a rubber band and wadding it up. But it’s the LOWERING of the weight (Eccentric motion) where your muscles undergo enough stress to cause micro tears in your muscle fibres. Think of taking the same rubber band, and now stretching it out while using a xacto knife and making small cuts in the rubber band… but not so many that the rubber band snaps.
Why is this a GOOD thing? Because when your muscles are damaged, they get repaired… but not just back to their original condition. They come back slightly bigger and stronger than before. Scientifically you can go into much greater depth about this topic but I am not here to bore you with science, I am here to tell you about what works and how it works in a straight forward manner.
So there you have it… a crucial tip that will help you get the most out of your weight training workouts. If you want to know more ways on how to increase muscle mass while sky-rocketing your metabolic rate at the same time, then you need to check out my book HERE.
Oh, and here is one last secret… and this is a biggie!
If you combine all my techniques together, it will have a synergistic effect on your body. Once this happens, watch out! Your energy and fat burning levels will be unstoppable!
Until next time…
FJ
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