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Most women are very timid when it comes to weight training. This is partly because exercise equipment and free weights look intimidating, they are afraid to bulk up and very often simply don't know how to train correctly.
If you take a look around the gym, you will find very few bulky women lifting weights. What you will see though, are women with nice, muscular - yet feminime - bodies training with weights.
How do these women train to look like that?
- Hours of elliptical climbing? Nope.
- Two cycle through the circuit? Probably not.
- Walking? Fat chance.
Instead these women have achieved their lean feminine physiques by weight training - hard and heavy - the same way the boys do.
If your goal is to tone and tighten your body, you need to switch from only cardio to lifting and pushing weights 3-5 times a week. Keep in mind that aerobic exercise is very important, since it improves cardiovascular health and facilitates reduction in body fat, but it's not the only form of exercise women need. It might be a little intimidating at first (running on the treadmill is so much easier), but once you start challenging your muscles, you will get hooked on the euphoric feeling of complete control over your body.
Women are not likely to get huge. In fact, most men - men with loads more testosterone and manly muscle-building potential - have real difficulty putting on muscle mass. If this is true for men, it's convincingly true for women.
To start, you may need the the assistance of a personal trainer or an educated friend, because the key to sucessful weight training is to pick a weight that causes you to reach a point of fatigue. You want the last few repetitions of your exercise to be demanding on the muscle you are working. There is absolutely no point in doing multiple repetitions of any exercise when you don't feel resistance. Provide your muscles with stimulus for growth and they will adapt!
Rest assured that you will NOT grow into a he-man. You simply don't have the hormonal profile for it.
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