Lifting Weights: Why Women Should Do It

Many women refuse to lift weights with the fear to gain large muscles. Contrary to this, women have very different body composition from men and no matter how often we lift weights, we will never grow as big as those bulky bodies we see at the gym.

The importance of strength training cannot be stressed enough. Here are some reasons to convince you to start working those muscles:

* Strength training makes us stronger. Lifting weights trains our strength and enables us to do more extensive physical activities.

* Lifting weights improve our bone health. When we lift weights, we increase our bone density and our tendons and ligaments are strengthened.

* Strength training increases muscle mass. It slows down or reverses the muscle loss that we experience as we age.

* Increased muscle mass through strength training enables us to burn more calories even at rest.

* Improving muscle strength increases our flexibility and balance. Thus, chances of injuries during physical activities are decreased.

These are just some of the many benefits we get from lifting weights. And based from my own experience, I can say that I wouldn't have lost this much weight so quickly if I haven't been lifting weights and doing strength training 2-3 times a week.

So, even after I've used up all my sessions with my Personal Trainer, I pursued my stength training and continued losing those unwanted fats and gaining more muscles.