A couple of months ago I posted an entry about women and their perfectly understandable but completely unfounded fears about weightlifting.
(You can check out the earlier post here.)
Their number one concern: getting “big” the way guys do.
Bottom line for those of you who haven’t read the previous post: not gonna happen.
Well, now there’s a brand new book out called The New Rules Of Lifting For Women: Lift Like A Man, Look Like A Goddess that expands upon the topic in significantly more detail (for those women still unconvinced).
The book, by Lou Schuler, Cassandra Forsythe, and Alwyn Cosgrove, contains a more in-depth refutation of the commonly held yet wildly inaccurate belief that women shouldn’t lift weights lest they transform overnight into some sort of muscle-bound man-woman.
The book, which seems to be getting a lot of favorable reviews thus far, also delves into proper diet and nutrition and includes detailed descriptions and color pictures of recommended exercises and workout routines.
Here’s a link to the Amazon page where you can purchase the book.
Tags: Look Like A Goddess, The New Rules Of Lifting For Women: Lift Like A Man
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I’m a 5’4″ woman, mother of two sons (3.5 years and 2 years old), and am 4 months into this program. I love it! I gained a lot of weight with my pregnancies and had a hard time loosing it. I started at 155lbs, and now am 130lbs. I have gained at least 10lbs in muscle and it really shows. The program is legit and the latest science. It focuses on ‘inefficiency’ so that your body is not able to adapt and in turn perform the same amount of work with less calorie expenditure. With each workout you increase you weight to build muscle, and ultimately you are increasing your BMI metabolism. Women shouldn’t fear getting big muscles like men, it won’t happen…we don’t have the hormone make-up required to build up like men. What women might not realize is that on this program I actually eat many more calories than I used too. More than anything I can lift my own body weight and that is very empowering.
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Darah, thanks for the comment – I’m really glad to see that the program’s working well for you.
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to say that I haven’t actually read the book, but I know exactly what you mean.
It’s true; your body adapts to doing the same workout routine day in, day out. A weight you couldn’t imagine yourself lifting in the beginning (say, your own body weight, right, Darah?) becomes an every day occurrence as your strength continues to gradually increase. The workout gets easier over time. Your body adapts to the stimuli.
That’s why switching things up occasionally really helps you stay on track when trying to build muscle and shed pounds.
I used to tell my clients, imagine being a blacksmith back in the olden days, every day hammering metal into shape, pounding away at the anvil. Your arms (well, maybe only the one doing the hammering) would get huge, really strong, and after doing it for many, many years, it might seem like the most natural thing to do, effortless even. You’re a blacksmith, it’s what you do; you’re used to it.
Now imagine what would happen if your poor, beleaguered apprentice, the one who goes down to the well every day, back and forth, carrying buckets of water, were to up and vanish, leaving you, the blacksmith, the one with the massive guns, having to get up earlier than usual to fetch water from the well.
The first few times going up and down that hill, lugging two heavy buckets full of water resting on your shoulders, well, it’s going to suck. At first. Your legs are going to be hurtin’, your back is going to be sore – aches and pains galore ‘cuz you’re using muscles you never had to before – that is, until your body gets used to it.
Then you’ll be a big burly blacksmith with legs the size of ham hocks.
Glad to see you’re making progress, Darah. Stick with it, and thanks again!