Health Care And Beauty

 When a women continues gain weight or doesn’t really notice a change in body weight after working out over a period of time, it can be very frustrating.   However, if your are going through something like this, there is a very specific reason or a root cause why this is happening to you.

 You’re going to have to start by throwing your scale away and stop relaying on your weight as a measurement.   The scale just spits a number back at you and this number doesn’t really mean anything because there is more to your weight and your body size that just what a scale shows you.

 1. Your Putting Muscle On and Not Fat 

 You have to realize that muscles weighs more then fat. You can then lose some of your actual body size and gain weight at the same time.   So when you see that you are not really losing weight even though your are losing inches off your waist or other parts of your body, it’s because you are putting on healthy lean muscle mass through your weight training for women. 

This does not mean that you are putting on size.  What you are doing is building lean muscle mass and while burning fat, which is taking inches off your body so you are really getting slimmer, leaner and most importantly healthier. 

2. Not Changing Your Workout Enough

This is very common when it comes to fitness. Every time I’m in the gym, I see the same women time and time again doing the same exercise routines without making any noticeable changes… I’m surprised they are still trying.   But the thing is your body is designed to get better the more you do something.   So the workout that these women are currently doing becomes to easy to continue to see any improvements.

Make sure you change your workout at the very least every four weeks. Do this and you will consistently see results from month to month.  

3. Still Eating Bad Foods

 This is a problem that so many people struggle with and it kills your chances for great results.   I’ve talked to many women who think they can eat whatever they want because they workout, but doing that will only lead to frustration.   A good workout, no matter how good it is, can never compete with a really bad diet.   Food plays so many games with your body that all the energy and time you’ve put into your workout plans will be for nothing. 

Here’s a great video to help you explain some of this better:

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Weight training for women can proceed in 3 different ways if training with weights is your goal, you can train using machines, free weights or a combination of the two.

I have to tell you straight out that I prefer the later (dumbbells and barbells) for most exercises.

Free weights demand more from your body and still allow your joints and limbs to move within their natural motion. Machines make your body move in a motion dictated by the make and design of the machine.

Most muscle strains and joint injuries come from the result of using machines that put unnatural stresses on the human body by locking you into a far too rigid position.

In the past when I have injured myself training, it’s generally come about when using machines (and improper form) instead of dumbbells and barbells.

Dumbbells and barbells will give you the freedom to isolate individual muscles and train your muscles in very creative ways.

When you use free weights it doesn’t matter what your height, weight, length of your limbs (arms and legs) you can still get a complete workout.

Many machines today are of great quality and design, and you can make adjustments on the machines for your particular physical proportions. Having said that many machines still seem to be designed with the average person in mind, if your not average you do stand a higher risk of injury.

Now I’m not totally against machines I do use them in my training, leg-extensions, lat pull-downs and a few other exercises. I believe that you should be using free weights 60 to 70% of the time in your training.

Machines will keep the resistance working along one plane only, this will result in the muscle group your training using less muscle while performing the exercise. The idea is to use as much of the muscle group at the same time to create maximum growth.

The muscle does react differently to the different types of resistance created by using free weights or machines. When a muscle is being hit from various angles and directions constantly as with free weights the resistance will be different and more positive then using machines which are always along a foreseeable line.

The bottom line is a work out is a work out, and sometimes you just have to make use of what is at hand to do your workout. The main thing is, that you do workout.

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