Pile on the ... muscle.

This is an issue that men don't fret about the same way women do because they WANT muscle so its a no brainer when it comes to weight training for them, however for many women its like a bad word. A word so dark, so ugly, so horrible it shan't be uttered in polite society!

"OOOOO she di'in' just say what I think she said?"
"She did! She said PICK UP THE DUMBELLS!"
"Nooooooooooooooooooo"

OK girls get over it. We shouldn't be scared.. we should be strong! Embrace the benefits that weight training offers us.

Women need to build muscle, again, let me repeat the word NEED. It is hard to stress how difficult it is for us women to build muscle to the point of looking like men which is the biggest fear many women have. Trust me, the women who have manly muscles (or extreme hypertrophy) spend countless hours daily in the gym, and didn't do it by picking up 10lb. dumbells in the aerobics class. They did it by putting in the HEAVY duty weights, they eat incredibly restricted diets and in some cases help with a little special 'juice'. Said juice would be hormones - and we do not produce enough of those hormones naturally to build muscle like a man.

So, feel good about picking up those weights, and don't be shy about it. Again, you might be asking yourself "Why would we want to do this?" Well then, aside from building incredibly sexy curves to replace the other fatty ones? How about the fact that in rest muscle burns more calories than fat. So if you build yourself up some muscle, at rest you can feasibly burn 200 more calories a day. Your metabolism will be closer to what it was when you were about 20 years old. Nice huh?

Plus aside from the increased metabolism it also strengthens the bones helping fight osteoporosis. Muscle building and also impact exercise strengthen the bones and keeps them that way, so to help fight osteoporosis it is one of the top recommendations by Doctors and Fitness Professionals everywhere. If these aren't reasons enough then I do not know what is.

Again, you won't look like a man and you will burn more fat and in general be healthier.

Think about it .. how sexy is it when a woman can pick up the heavy stuff herself?