The women, in their majority, want to be slim and fit, but when we talk about muscle gain there is a holdback.
You must know that the muscles are the ones that give the form of your body because the only form that fat gives is round. So, all muscle groups need to grow in order to give the body a nice form that is wanted by everyone.
The good news is that this can be obtained by anyone, no matter of their fitness level or genetic legacy. You don’t need to live in the gym and eat only “water” to achieve this.
So, let’s destroy the two myths which are on the lips of many women:
Myth 1 – If you lift heavy weights, women become “massive”
This myth has kept away many women to include weights in their training. Some women gain muscle mass more easily than others, but that is normal as some of them are more flexible when they start doing Yoga. The purpose to train with weights is to sculpt the body.
Maybe the image on the left kept you from lifting the weights. Essential to these women, besides thousands of training hours, there are growth substances: steroids, hormone, etc, Forget about this when you are thinking about yourself.
The one in the right is a CrossFit professional athlete Christmas Abbott. She is doing dead-lift barbell and thousands of training hours that include lifting weights. Do you think that she is that big?
Myth 2 – Women need to be just toned, not having visible muscles
In most women’s magazines, you will see a lot of advice about cardio and fitness workouts, all of this combined with diets that can starve you. Ok, all of these are good if you want to be hungry all the time, hate the gym and have a “skinny fat” look.
Because visual examples are the best to give you an idea about what we have talked, below you will have in the left a skinny-fat body and the same person on the right after the build-up of muscle mass.
Or this image, where both have the same fat to body ratio, but the one in the right has more muscle. If you are skinny, the muscles are responsible for your body curves, without them you are just skinny.
Muscles – Fat relation
First, you need to build up muscle mass to burn fat. When you start training intramuscular fat will be moved outside of your muscle and this will look that your waist is bigger than before.
But this is for a short time because you will start to burn that fat
