Does Lifting Weights Bulk Up Women?
September 16, 2009 by Kris Jones
Filed under Weight Lifting
A common weight lifting myth among women is that lifting weights will result in a bulked up body. This is not only not true, but just the opposite. Weight lifting can play a big role in women slimming down and becoming more toned.
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Why is lifting weights beneficial?
Weight lifting builds lean muscle in your body. Lean muscle helps you burn calories and lose weight by increasing your daily metabolic rate. Muscle burns calories at a rate of 3:1 over fat.
Muscle also helps your coordination and reduces the risk of injury.
Why won’t women bulk up from lifting weights?
Bulking up from weight lifting is a difficult task. Even men (with their testosterone producing bodies) consuming mass amounts of calories and specifically protein while lifting heavy weights are slow to bulk up.
For a women to bulk up from weight lifting, there would have to be a conscious effort made to increase protein and calorie consumption while lifting much heavier weight than most women would ever pick up.
