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How do you approach female clients who worry that lifting weights will make them bulky?

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Question added by nadine holroyd , Owner , Tough Mutha Fitness
Date Posted: 2016/05/02
Saiyid Maududi-Oracle Applications Consultant
by Saiyid Maududi-Oracle Applications Consultant , Entrerprise Architect , US Technomatrix, Inc

Hello Team,

My point is this; not even males have to worry about getting too big! Anyone that you see with grossly large muscles is consuming steroids. Unless you have a rare set of genes, you’re going to work your ass off just to gain some respectable muscle.

Another point to clarify here is that women do produce testosterone, but it’s in such small quantities that it’s ridiculous to debate the natural ability of growing massive muscles in 99.9% of females.

Even women who dedicate their entire lives to lifting weights don’t get large and bulky because their bodies don’t naturally produce enough testosterone.

In addition to large differences in testosterone between men and women, there are also major structural differences in the size of their muscle fibers.

Men have contractile muscle fibers that are two times larger than women. In fact, research continues to reveal that although females can make significant increases in strength by weight training, they are not capable of increasing muscle size to the degree that men can.

Regards,

 

Saiyid

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