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| Strong is the New Skinny |
 Trina writes, "If you are like me when it comes to exercise you never set foot in the weight room. Many of us would much rather get in our cardio workout over strength exercises. So I had to ask around, "Why aren't women lifting more weights?"
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I asked and this is what they said: "I don't want to bulk up." "It's hard trying to get weights in along with my cardio workout." "I don't want others to watch me make a fool of myself in the weight room."
Let me get past the myths and set the record straight:
- IT'S PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR WOMEN TO BUILD BULKY MUSCLES! We simply don't have the genetics and hormones that men do.
- In our mid-thirties we begin to lose 5 to 10 percent of our muscle strength each decade.
- Muscle burns an estimated three times more calories than fat. By adding two to four pounds of muscle-you can easily burn an extra 100 calories a day.
- Some have found that weight training improves the way our body's process sugar and may help control diabetes.
- Strength training will improve your Resting Heart Rate, and decrease body fat, which in turn will lower your blood pressure.
- Functional Fitness (strength training) is necessary to achieve everyday life's challenges. Picking up a child, carrying groceries and hauling the vacuum up stairs.
Life is easier when we are stronger. Lifting weights does not have to be an everyday event. Choose two days out of the week for a total of twenty minutes a day. Target a total body routine.
Choose exercises such as Thrusters, Burpees, Pushups, and Deadlifts. You don't need to join a gym to get started; just a few simple exercises can be done right in your own home. Now go pump some iron!
Trina K Kubitschek, CPT
Owner of CrossFit Station
Nutrition Counseling
Endurance Coaching
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Posted on Feb 13, 2012 09:36am.
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