I don’t go to the gym - I’m afraid to pump up and become like a pumped-up female bodybuilder!

A small sociological study we conducted showed that most girls, young women and young women avoid training in the gym for one insanely stupid reason. “Training with iron leads to excessive muscle growth, which looks ugly. I'm afraid of overpumping. And a pumped-up woman – is that beautiful?” - this is the answer of a typical representative of the fair sex to the offer to train in the gym with weights.

It turns out that women are especially afraid that constant training with weights will make them look like male weightlifters. So, our myth today is called: “pumped woman.”

Will I become a bodybuilder?

To dispel this legend, you just need to look at the photo we offered of the woman who posed for us for this article. Her name is Elena, she works as a fitness trainer in our sports center. She not only periodically (I would even say enthusiastically) works with heavy weights, but also has excellent technique for performing all the exercises from the arsenal of bodybuilding and fitness. Do you think she looks somehow ugly? Moreover, she is not an amateur, but a real professional who has been working on her body regularly for more than 10 years. Draw your own conclusions...

As a professional trainer who understands something in this matter, I must authoritatively declare, dear ladies, that if you want your body to be healthy, beautiful and sexually attractive, you cannot do without working with weights. If you want to prevent such degenerative changes in the body as osteoporosis, which actively develops with age, you will have to take the handles of dumbbells in your palms and, having selected the appropriate music for the sport, begin to move actively. And your main phobia should not be “I’m afraid of pumping up”, but “I’m afraid of not pumping up”! - Yes, I think it will be right...

Will I be pumped up like a man?

All the talk about over-bulking is complete nonsense. Because even a slaughter-heavy diet and super-powerful training methods for bodybuilders will not help to give your muscles a bulky appearance. Your body simply will not allow you to pump, and without the use of special medications this is not at all easy to do. You can't do without chemistry here. Moreover, harsh hormonal chemistry. There is a special type of exercise - sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which results in overly huge muscles, like those of bodybuilders. Women using this technique need to constantly be on a whole complex of hormonal drugs (anabolic steroids) and eat huge amounts of food to fuel active muscle growth.

...and think: do you need it?

If you first use your own body weight as a weight in exercises to strengthen the muscles of the torso, then you will soon need specialized equipment and equipment for this, including a fitball, TRX suspension loops and rubber shock-absorbing bands. By including core exercises in your training program at a very early stage, you can later avoid the most common mistakes regarding other aspects of training. And this, as a result, will give you the opportunity to make a stronger swing with a golf club, and qualitatively improve the technique of hitting a tennis racket, and even get those treasured relief “cubes” on your tummy.

Well, what sport is complete without energetic, catchy music? As the famous saying goes: the song helps us live and love!