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
