5 Best Female Fitness & Fat Loss Tips

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5 Best Female Fitness & Fat Loss Tips

I’m going to say something that women everywhere will smile and agree wholeheartedly with and a lot of my male friends will shake their head and say ‘No way!’ –

But in my experience – when a woman knows what she wants – she is more dedicated than a lot of her male counterparts in actually getting it.  I am referring to fitness and body transformation here.

Don’t get me wrong, men know the score, they step into the gym fully prepared to throw the testosterone to the wall and hit the gym or their training hard for the 45 mins or the 1 hour plus they are there.  But in terms of women: WHEN I EXPRESS TO MY FEMALE CLIENTS exactly what it is going to take to see actual results and fat loss/body transformation – they step up like no-one else.  Commitment is really a joy to watch when my female clients forget the old training techniques they used and start on a program or path that requires they do just the same as a lot of the men in a gym.

Here is a list of 5 fundamentals all my female clients are ‘schooled in’ when they want real results. Because the reality is that anyone can get the results but a new mentality to ‘female body transformation’ needs to be understood, embraced and enjoyed or a woman risks being on the sidelines whilst others see incredible results.

All in all the landscape is changing – women need to know they are capable of much more than 40 minute steady state cardio. (of course I’m not generalizing to say ALL women only like cardio – but a large amount don’t know what options exist and what really is going to work)  So come on ladies, read on:

1) Let’s expand on the ’40 minute cardio thing’. The cold hard facts are that unless you absolutely love cardio on a treadmill or a cycle at one pace for 30-40 mins and don’t care about your body changing into the body you really want, then this form of training is going out like the dinosaurs. Caveat:  If you are training for a marathon then fine, add this in by all means but don’t just do this.  A woman needs to pick up weights, challenge herself, change intensity and resistance levels and ad variety.  I have all the ladies I train understand first and foremost that lifting weights and adding variety will be a pre-requisite in their training with me.  Results will skyrocket for you.  (you can still do cardio every now and then for 30 minutes if you really are addicted!)

2) Know that your hour workout (or 45 mins or less!) is time to focus on building progressive workouts and real progressive results on top of the last session.  You are not in the gym as part of a four day workout week for the fun of it.  You are capable of incredible intensity – which will stoke up your fat loss results – you turn up, tune out and give all that you’ve got.  Funnily enough, my female clients absolutely ‘kick arse’ once they begin this new form of training with variety, weights and intensity.  (I do bootcamps and its great to see the women and men all working out together in such intense protocols and spurring one another on.)

3) The resistance thing- and ‘Oh God – I’ll get huge!’ Syndrome. You may know, you may not, but a woman – unless she is endowed with sky high amount of testosterone will never get ‘big’ – then of course she’d be a man…hmmm! – seriously, lifting resistance weights and doing so in new and exciting workouts like I prescribe will create lean mass, burn more calories than any amount of steady state cardio and allow a female to sculpt the type of body she probably only thinks cardio can do.  And do know – as I said – a woman can do all this and more – trust me.

4) Challenge your body like men do. A lot of men go into the gym and lift bigger, heavier, harder…etc.  A woman needs to use that God-given intensity and focus and incorporate  high intensity training protocols that challenge the central nervous system and forces body adaptation.  Going through the motions on a cardio machine is selling yourself short. Women can bring a level of intensity to all training protocols that is inspiring to see.  My clients do it in our bootcamps.  They know its not easy but they bring a ‘can-do and will-do’ attitude that works so well and makes plodding along on cardio machines the waste of time for fat loss that it really is.

5) Build That Muscle and Do Less Cardio: I know women read that and think – ‘oh no you don’t Mr. Lewis!’ – but this is exactly the mentality and mindset you want.  The more lean muscle you have the more fat you burn.  And please understand once more that you are genetically programmed to build and sculpt lean long muscles that create that feminine physique – NOT bulge out of your sports bra like a cross dresser in Mardi-Gras.  Oh and cardio will now consist of short, intense interval training using both body weight and resistance weights in explosive and exciting new exercises for real fat loss.

So all in all the times are changing for women in the fat loss / fitness word.   The approaches above and everything you’ll find here at Man Vs Fitness will assist you in doing the right things and leaving behind the ideas that don’t deliver…

Because when all is said and done nothing is more impressive than a sculpted, lean and athletic female physique. And that is something I know my male counterparts will 110% agree on

Cheers ladies, let me know your thoughts.

Tris,

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