Why Women Need Strength Training

Why Women Need Strength Training

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Over the last 30 years since the fitness boom started in the early 1980�s there has been plenty of research done on the advantages that a woman can get from training with weights. Women do not gain muscle like men do but the improvement of health and fat-loss etc has been well-proven.

Training with weights for women is not about gaining muscle but gaining strength and the physical benefits associated with getting stronger. Research shows that even if a woman trains with moderate weights she will increase her strength by 30% to 50%.

Probably the main reason why women all over the world train with weights is the proven fat-loss it will achieve. In a study that Wayne Westcott, PhD, from Massachusetts did with women only training three times a week the average woman will gain 2 pounds of muscle and lose 3.5 pounds of fat in only six weeks.

Sports science has proven many years ago that adding a pound of muscle will burn an extra 50 calories every day, speed up metabolism, increase bone strength, reduce the chances of developing diabetes and reduce heart disease by over 50%.

Something that many women seem to get confused about is the gaining of muscle as females have 10 to 30 times less testosterone in their bodies and they will develop tone and definition before they add muscle. It is currently less than 1% of female weight trainers who start to compete as bodybuilders.

Research shows that that after training with moderate weights only three times a week the average woman will prevent Osteoporosis and increase their bone mineral density in the spine and other joints by 13% in 6 months. Increasing the ability as an athlete and reducing the risk of injury has also been proven.

Dr. Barry A. Franklin, from the William Beaumont Hospital which is in Michigan has produced two very relevant studies conclusively showing that women who do weight training on a regular basis will improve cardiovascular health and lower blood pressure.

But Dr. Franklin did not stop there as he has been responsible for an important study showing that the weight training can also improve the way a female body processes sugar. He explained this in a summary that with adult-onset diabetes now being the fastest growing disease on the planet, simply training with weights will automatically increase glucose utilization by 23% in four months.

The last study that should be mentioned here is the study that proved that women of all ages can benefit from weighty training. His study clearly demonstrated that women of 70 and 80 years old were able to show the improvements from weight training.

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