February 18th, 2009 Milan
Women can and should train equally as hard as men to reshape their bodies. This includes seeking real strength – not simply trying to make strength training more like cardio exercise.
Without strength training, muscles disappear. The more muscle you loose, the slower your metabolism works, and that equates to fat storage and weight gain.
I cannot stress enough the importance of strength training with intensity for women.
I understand the fears some women have, that strength training will develop big muscles. But you won’t get big doing 15 intensive repetition. So put your fears aside. The lean muscle you build will translate to the tone and shape you desire.
Adding lean muscle can be the fastest and easiest route to achieve what most women want: a sculpted, lean, fat-burning physique that’s full of energy, vitality, and strength to make you look and feel great.
Muscle gives your body a shape. It conveys an aura of strength and confidence. With strength, you carry yourself with purpose, you look and feel like the force you truly are.
It does all that for me. It influences the way I feel every day, and can do the same for you.
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February 13th, 2009 Milan
Strong body makes the mind strong.
Strength training stimulates endorphins, neuro-transmitters, making you feel good during and fallowing strength training. It is improving blood flow with that brings oxygen and nutrients to your brain.
Regular strength training improves your mood, decreases anxiety, improves sleep, decreases stress and raises self-esteem.
When your body is strong, firing on all cylinders, your mind is strong too, you can’t help but feel more focused and, yes you are smarter.
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February 12th, 2009 Milan
Many people, mainly women, resist strength training because they’re concerned it’s going to make them “look big” or muscle bound.
Here is the irony: Strength training shapes you smaller.
That’s because a pound of muscle is much smaller and takes up less space than pound of fat. A pound of fat is about the size of a big grapefruit. In contrast, a pound of lean muscle is about a size of a lemon.
Using these analogy, imagine how great you would look and feel if you swap 20 pounds of fat (think 20 grapefruits) for five pounds of lean muscle (think 5 lemons).
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