When women think about strength training they see huge muscular women with bulging muscles and decide that is definitely not for them. The truth is women just don’t have the testosterone required to easily build large amounts of muscle.
Yes, it’s possible but usually there’s an element of drug use such as steroids required to give women the huge bulky muscles you see in the magazines. Either that or you’d need to train seven days a week with some very heavy weights.
Therefore if you add strength training to your workouts it’s only going to build a small amount of extra lean muscle tissue and lets face it as we all know the more muscle you have the more fat you burn.
The other problem is that strength training can be uncomfortable, it can make you hot and sweaty and let’s face it it’s hard work. That partly explains why most women prefer to do bucketloads of cardio in fact in a lot of cases that’s all they do.
Now having cardio in your weekly workout is essential but it’s also very important to introduce some strength training. The equipment required is minimal in fact you could get away with no equipment at all. Press ups, squats and lunges will exercise just about every single muscle in your body.
The bottom line is to look good requires a balanced workout which includes cardio, strength training, stretching and other functional exercises.
So get off the treadmill and add an element of strength training to your workout. Trust me you won’t regret it and your results will be better and come much faster.