Women bodybuilding – tips for female bodybuilding
June 6, 2008
With the current craze of the Atkins diet women are finding success fitting into clothes that they couldn’t fit into for a while. Without a doubt the Atkins diet works. Unfortunately the diet doesn’t help muscle tone or the cardiovascular system. Now with the fat that was covering the underlying muscle melted off, you would like to see these muscles toned up. Why not try bodybuilding? You probably have many questions why you should start bodybuilding. A lot of people seem to have the misconception that women cannot take part in heavy weight training methods and that their bodies are not suitable for such strenuous methods of training.
You can safely say that none of it is true and there have been a lot of them in the past and there are a lot of them right now who could be quoted as the right examples to prove this misconception wrong. Women bodybuilding is not new. Physique contests for women date back to at least the 1960s, with contests like the Miss Physique and Miss Americana.
However, those early “bodybuilding” contests were really not much more than bikini contests. The first U.S. Women’s National Physique Championship, promoted by Henry McGhee and held in Canton, Ohio in 1978, is generally regarded as the first true female bodybuilding contest – that is, the first contest where the entrants were judged solely on muscularity (Todd, 1999).
There are also many myths about female bodybuilding. For instance, many women will think if they stop weight training, their muscles turn into fat. This is like saying that gold can turn into brass. Muscle and fat are two totally different types of tissue. What happens many times is that when people decide to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to inactivity (use it or lose it) and they also usually drop the diet as well.
Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to inactivity, and lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression that the subject’s muscle is being turned into fat while in reality what is happening is that muscle is being lost and fat is being accumulated.
After all, women’s body is delicate and not as tough as the men’s. Therefore, one has to make a perfect schedule for bodybuilding women. For instance, to spend only three days a week in the gym, and have significant results, here is a great sample schedule to do it. Follow this exact schedule if you like, or feel free to adjust it to your preference if you wish to train other body parts on different days.
Monday: Legs and shoulders, calves
Tuesday: Training off
Wednesday: Back and biceps, abs
Thursday: Training off
Friday: Chest and triceps, abs
Saturday: Training off
Sunday: Training off
Women bodybuilding is more about physical fitness, weight loss, and general good health. Many women are turning to bodybuilding as way to lose weight. The fat turns to muscle, the excess weight falls off, and the weight that stays behind is healthy, toned muscle, so you look even thinner and healthier than other people at the same weight level.
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