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Females can achieve great benefits with more resistance work out sessions

Seeing as it’s Mother’s Day this Sunday I thought it only right I dedicate this week’s article to the fairer of the sexes.
To all the Mummys reading this post, I hope you’re spoilt on Sunday as you undoubtedly deserve it.

And to all the sons reading this, make sure and show this article to your mummy, it’ll be your way of showing you care, and sure doesn’t it save you getting a card!

Ladies, if you’re interested in optimising sport performance, burning fat, improving your body shape and enhancing your health, it’s time to start lifting weights!

Let me get one thing out of the way before I go any further. What seems to put a lot of women off lifting weights is the idea that they’ll suddenly gain huge muscles and become more masculine. Nonsense! That isn’t going to happen. The average female body isn’t genetically built to become a hulking power house.

I’ve seen girls afraid to lift a dumbbell in case they’ll instantaneously sprout biceps the size of boulders. If it were that easy you wouldn’t catch me in a jumper this side of Paddy’s Day!

Getting ‘that big’ takes ALOT of hard work, dedication, time and patience. Lifting weights is what’s going to help you lose fat, not get huge!

Here are four major benefits for women who lift –

* A by-product of a well-structured weights routine will be an improvement in strength. In terms of performance, if you have a higher strength and power output your body will be capable of producing more physically.

* Lifting weights is a more effective way to burn fat than the traditional, albeit outdated, weight loss strategy of slow and steady cardio!

* Putting your muscles under stress by lifting weights will make them adapt, creating a leaner body.

* Females genetically have weaker bones, so by putting your muscles under the stress of lifting weights it not only causes your muscles to get stronger but it also helps to strengthen your bones.

The list goes on; lifting weights is a great stress reliever as it releases endorphins into the body post exercise which help ease your worriesaway. When performed correctly they’ll help with posture.

Ask anyone who regularly lifts weights often and chances are they’ll tell you it improves their body confidence too!

I currently train numerous females for both one to one training and in small groups, all of which are predominantly weights based sessions.

Results have been fantastic, both aesthetically, where inches were lost and body fat reduced, and physically, where strength output and power improved enormously.

The overall benefits for women to start lifting weights is hard to ignore, so if you don’t already then it’s time to get started!

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