Monday, October 18, 2010   I see many women in the gym ‘toning’
their bodies with little pink weights for hundreds of reps
accumulated over an hour long workout. I just wonder why don’t
they just jump on the tread mill and spend the hour there. I
mean why delude yourself that you are weight training when you
really are doing aerobic style workouts. Just to make it clear
weight training is a weight bearing exercise that requires
anaerobic pathways of energy breakdown which happens when you
lift heavy for a few reps. Weight training shouldn’t make you go
out of breath and panting for air. This is not the mode that
builds muscle. For building muscle you need to lift heavy enough
to perform the full range of motion for 10-15 reps and no more.
If you are able to do a 16th rep, then you need to increase the
weight.    A concern I hear from women (and many men) is that
they don’t want to ‘bulk-up’ by lifting heavy. To address this I
would say that women don’t have near as much testosterone as men
do, to really bulk