Why are women scared of building muscle?
When ever I suggest lifting weights to any female who has not done so before the response is almost always the same. ” I don’t want to bulk up”!
Yes it is true that when we lift weights correctly we build muscle. But what is muscle?
Muslce is active living tissue. For every extra pound of muscle that you have on your body the more calories you will burn 24 hours a day.
Even when you are sleeping your muscles use up energy just by being there. So imagine when you are walking, cleaning or doing your Zumba classes how many more calories you will burn because you are using those muscles! This is why when people ask me how many calories they are burning in class it is impossible to answer because every one is different body composition (proportions or muscle, fat and water). I can guarantee you though it will be the Wow Campers that burn the most.
Muscle is more dense than fat so it takes up less room but weighs more.
so let us say you decide to build some muslce. After you have found out what to do to gain that muscle (there is a lot of bad useless advice out there, particularly for women so make sure you hunt down the good advice) what will start to happen then?
Over time your muscles will become tighter and more compact therefor appearing to ‘shrink’ the size of your body.As these muscles tighten everything will feel lifted. So you can defy gravity!
The muscle always attaches to two bones crossing over a joint and this offers greater protection to weaker joints resulting in less stress and ultimately less pain as we age.
Visualise a piece of cotton wool – when it is dry and fluffly it can take up a large area of space. If you wet the same piece of cotton wool and sqeeze it tight it will become smaller, firmer and weigh MORE! Dry cotton wool is FAT, wet cotton wool is MUSCLE! Muscle eats fat by the way…..fat cannot turn into muscle and muscle cannot turn into fat – FACT.
Forget what the scales say!
If you own a pair of scales, get rid. They are a waste of your time and it’s madness to use them for FAT loss. It is especially unhealthy to use them daily or even more thna once daily and I know because I have done it!
Muscle defies gravity.
Muslce is sexy! Think Beyonce, Angelina Jolie and Mel B!
and NOT WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS PICTURE!
