I've been blogging about fitness and my own healthy lifestyle for over 7 years now and what I've learned is that I'm always going to be learning. It's a never-ending and a very important part of being a human. You constantly learn in every area of your life. You can learn at school, from media, mentors, trials and errors, or from your own mistakes. The important thing is not to assume that you know everything and that there's nothing new to learn or discover, because that type of attitude is not going to help you in a long run. I'm always very excited whenever I learn something new that I can immediately implement into my life, business, or fitness regimen. One of the things I've learned over the past several months is that there is a significant difference between men and women and the way they should train their bodies.
I know you've read or heard many times that women should be lifting weights and train like their male counterparts in order to get a sexy body shape. The problem is that we've translated that literally and even tho we've been working so hard and trying to follow all the advice that men give us, we forgot about one important thing. We're women. Our bodies and our goals are different from men. What is it that we women, really want? We want to fit in skinny jeans and have a cute round butt. We want to have a slim waist, flat belly, and some of us want to show a six pack. We do like tight and shapely arms but we don't want to get too big and bulky in our shoulders. I think I speak for the majority of women.
Now let's take a look at men's typical goals. Big muscular arms, shoulders, Chest, and back. Visible muscles around the neck called traps. V shape back which requires to build muscles on their upper back and of course a six pack or preferably 8 pack. I don't think I've ever heard any man saying I need my butt to be more perky or I need to slim down my legs. The only thing men are interested in when it comes to their lower body is to build big muscular quads and calves.
What I'm saying is that we can't expect to reach our goals if we follow workouts that were put together by men for men. I used to do a lot of workouts based around exercises that would target your upper body more then necessary, while neglecting the important parts like my butt and legs. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should avoid challenging upper body exercises, not at all. We just have to find the right ratio and balance so that we can reach OUR goals. I started implementing this strategy into my new workouts a while ago and so far I've been proud of the results. Rule number one, always include exercises for your butt and legs and make them the staple of your training. Rule number two. Stick with full body workouts that include cardio and abs. No woman should ever waste her time by splitting her routines into upper body, or arms and chest days. Unless you are a bodybuilder of course. So let's embrace our female curves, and get on the right path to reach our goals!!
I've been blogging about fitness and my own healthy lifestyle for over 7 years now and what I've learned is that I'm always going to be learning. It's a never-ending and a very important part of being a human. You constantly learn in every area of your life. You can learn at school, from media, mentors, trials and errors, or from your own mistakes. The important thing is not to assume that you know everything and that there's nothing new to learn or discover, because that type of attitude is not going to help you in a long run. I'm always very excited whenever I learn something new that I can immediately implement into my life, business, or fitness regimen. One of the things I've learned over the past several months is that there is a significant difference between men and women and the way they should train their bodies.
I know you've read or heard many times that women should be lifting weights and train like their male counterparts in order to get a sexy body shape. The problem is that we've translated that literally and even tho we've been working so hard and trying to follow all the advice that men give us, we forgot about one important thing. We're women. Our bodies and our goals are different from men. What is it that we women, really want? We want to fit in skinny jeans and have a cute round butt. We want to have a slim waist, flat belly, and some of us want to show a six pack. We do like tight and shapely arms but we don't want to get too big and bulky in our shoulders. I think I speak for the majority of women.
Now let's take a look at men's typical goals. Big muscular arms, shoulders, Chest, and back. Visible muscles around the neck called traps. V shape back which requires to build muscles on their upper back and of course a six pack or preferably 8 pack. I don't think I've ever heard any man saying I need my butt to be more perky or I need to slim down my legs. The only thing men are interested in when it comes to their lower body is to build big muscular quads and calves.
What I'm saying is that we can't expect to reach our goals if we follow workouts that were put together by men for men. I used to do a lot of workouts based around exercises that would target your upper body more then necessary, while neglecting the important parts like my butt and legs. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that we should avoid challenging upper body exercises, not at all. We just have to find the right ratio and balance so that we can reach OUR goals. I started implementing this strategy into my new workouts a while ago and so far I've been proud of the results. Rule number one, always include exercises for your butt and legs and make them the staple of your training. Rule number two. Stick with full body workouts that include cardio and abs. No woman should ever waste her time by splitting her routines into upper body, or arms and chest days. Unless you are a bodybuilder of course. So let's embrace our female curves, and get on the right path to reach our goals!!
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