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Strength training for women
Unfortunately, strength training for women is often seen negatively - you hear people say things like "I don't want to bulk up", or "I don't want to look like a man." Yet the truth is that strength training for women is a powerful tool that can help you get the body you want.
The key principle to understand is that men's hormones make it much more likely that they will add muscle - strength training for women is unlikely to add a significant amount of muscle, no matter how hard you work.
Rather, strength training for women is more likely to re-shape your body, helping to balance out the natural female pear shape by adding a small amount of extra muscle to the upper body while simultaneously burning fat from the lower body.
Weight lifting is greatly underestimated as a tool for fat-loss. It works in two ways:-
Weights workouts are intense, thus they burn calories
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Each extra pound of muscle you add burns between 15 and 35 calories per hour, 24/7
When you add those two facts together you have a powerful tool that can literally re-shape your body. When combined with a healthy diet, this is a formula to improve your appearance, and help you lose unwanted fat forever.
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