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Women bodybuilding for beginners.

With current craze of Atkins diet women are finding success fitting into clothes that they couldn’t fit into for a while. Without a doubt Atkins diet works. Unfortunately diet doesn’t help muscle tone or cardiovascular system. Now with fat that was covering underlying muscle melted off,. you would like to see these muscles toned up. Why not try bodybuilding? You probably have some questions why you should start bodybuilding. I listed below some of questions I have been asked over years. Hopefully this will answer your queries.

Question 1 If I start bodybuilding will I develop huge muscles and have to quit my job as a dental hygienist? I’m not looking forward to becoming a longshoreman and working on docks and changing my name to Butch.

No. A woman does not have testosterone levels as a man to build huge muscles. The bodybuilding training will only tone muscles and add shape.

Question 2 Will I have to 2nd mortgage house so I can buy supplements to support my bodybuilding endeavors?

No. Just follow a natural well-balanced eating plan.

Question 3 Can I build a larger chest with bodybuilding?

Just as it is necessary to know what steps to take to meet your individual fitness goals, it is just as important to know what not to do. Avoid following top ten mistakes that are sure to ruin your fitness efforts:

1. Fail to Plan. It's been said over and over: "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Working out without a pre-determined workout regime is similar to going on a trip without directions; most likely you'll end up getting lost. Don't make this common mistake. Enlist aid of a qualified personal trainer to design a proper resistance training and aerobic program. Purchase one of many guides to fitness programming and educate yourself on basics.

2. Compare yourself to others. Go into any gym and you're sure to see grunting exercisers muscling their way through workouts. Meanwhile, group fitness studio is filled with twirling, panting, leaping students who look more like they're auditioning for a music video than participating in an aerobics class. Don't even think about trying to emulate them. At very least you'll get discouraged that you can't keep up; at worst you'll get hurt.

Keep your expectations realistic. A beginning expecting to bench 300 pounds in first month is doomed to failure. Better to increase strength incrementally over time. Likewise, presuming that you'll lose 100 pounds of bodyfat on a new diet in three months will never happen. Set realistic goals that will keep you motivated and concentrate on yourself, not others, throughout process.

3. Too little exercise. Contrary to what popular exercise programs would have us believe, it is simply not enough to put in three or four exercise sessions per week and expect major results. Weight loss and body composition changes are results of cumulative lifestyle choices, not just exercise in gym. There are 168 hours in a week; expecting to lose weight by just spending 1% of our available time being active is ridiculous.

This doesn’t mean you need to spend your entire day chained to a barbell, but make sure that you are active in some fashion every day. In addition to workouts, increase lower level activity by walking or bike riding to work, choose parking space furthest away from grocery store’s door, or get out and play with your kids. The point is to be active and keep body in motion on a regular basis.

4. Too much exercise. On other hand, don't become obsessed with exercise that it begins to rule your life. Over-training is as detrimental to achieving fitness goals as doing nothing at all.

Common signs of over-training include overuse injuries, insomnia, fatigue, prolonged recovery from workouts, and general disinterest in exercise. Rest and recovery are vital for achieving gains and preventing burnout.

5. Never change your workout routine. Nothing is as boring as same routine over and over again. Not only will you get bored, your muscles will adapt and quit responding. Change your exercises, order you do them, number of sets and reps, and vary weights. Variety is necessary or progress will stop. Make every workout different in some way.

6. Starving to lose weight. The usual American diet consists of a quick (usually missed) breakfast, lunch on run and then a huge feast for dinner. Unfortunately, this is worst eating plan for weight loss because it slows down metabolism. When body is not fed consistently, it flips into starvation mode developed through evolution and hangs onto fat content for survival.