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Saturday, November 6, 2010

Why Weight Training is the Only Way to Fitness


Somewhere in America, there is a woman emphatically proclaiming “…no, I don’t want to lift weights…I’ll just bulk up.”  Putting aside the fact that in order for that to happen, sufficient amounts of the hormone testosterone must be present in amounts which the female body doesn’t produce-this fallacy, somehow still prevails, (in spite of our knowledge of basic endocrinology.)  While there are women body builders who use performance enhancing drugs to  create the muscular physique that most women (and men for that matter), find unattractive, this is not the norm for most women who lift weights.