Lean how to do the best workouts for women.

Because I want to always keep you motivated and ready to have the best workouts for women (duh) here are some fun facts on women’s strength training plus some other things I think are worthy of your reading!

Pick up some weights today!

• It takes just 2 weeks of high intensity training to increase metabolism significantly.
• 30 min to 2 hours of exercise per day can cut breast cancer risk by 1/3…
  
• 73% of Americans say they don’t want a more balanced diet because they don’t want to give up their favorite foods
• Recent study in Preventative Medicine showed that just lifting weights for four weeks caused a 3% drop in cholesterol… 5% in LDL
• By 2030 its estimated that 83% of American adults will be overweight or obese
• Without cutting out any calories, the average women can decrease her body fat by 3% in just 10 weeks (this may sound like a small number, but 3% is quite significant).
• women typically don’t gain size from strength training because women have 10 to 30 times fewer muscle building hormones that cause muscle hypertrophy than men.
• Increase spinal bone density by 13% in just 6 months with strength training
• Americans are spending more than $150 million on products related to weight loss. Interestingly, most of these products have no medical backing and little to show by way of proven results.
  
• Only 21% of women partake in strength training workouts

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