With strength comes confidence, they say – and women can benefit from weight training with desirable results.
It’s advantageous for women of any age to engage in a routine exercise regimen and a great way to encourage confidence and strength is to train with weights.
Yet some women are concerned that one of the end results is ‘bulking up’ from lifting weights.
Here are some ways you can lift weights and still keep your healthy, yet girlish physique.
Remember: ‘strength’ over ‘weight’
It’s important to know the difference between weight and strength training. Weight training will help you gain weight and implies stresses on the muscles. Strength training occurs when you perform fewer than five reps with the weights. This concentrates more on your neurons rather than muscles.
Avoid the ‘deadlift’
The famous deadlift – the daddy of weightlifting techniques – is designed to work more than one set of muscles at once. You likely don’t want this, unless your choice is to look like Lady Schwarzenegger. However, you can modify the technique in or