Frequently asked questions…

Sonya Gill

1) “Wont weights make me big?”

If you’re a man asking this question, you may as well skip this question – Go lift some weights in the meantime.

However, if you’re a woman asking this question, unless your lifting like your training for a body building competition, the answer is NO!

Women are not genetically pre-disposed to balloon out like men, they just don’t have enough testosterone (you have about 10% of the testosterone of the average male to be exact). And even when men try to put on muscle, look how much they struggle to put it on, it takes them SO long!

I’m sure the reason you’re even asking this question is because you saw some woman with thick thighs doing lunges at your gym or a woman with big arms and came to conclude that it’s because they lift weights. That is a very bad assumption. The truth is, that even if you worked out your muscles to extreme fatigue, woman are genetically incapable of creating large, bulky muscles, because they lack sufficient hormones or even the body structure to support that type of muscle tissue. Unless your injecting yourself with testosterone (hey, to each their own, however, I don’t personally suggest it!), resistance training will only create stronger, denser, shapelier muscles.

I also want you to keep in mind, that every time you gain a pound of muscle, (before you begin to freak out), it has been estimated that the “space” of a pound of muscle is about twenty percent less than a pound of fat. That means adding five pounds of muscle and losing five pounds of fat would actually make you look smaller. And I would say that would be a fair trade, wouldn’t you? Enough said.

Next up:

2) “Can I burn fat from a specific area by doing specific exercises?”

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