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Strength Training Will Create Large Bulky Muscles

Strength training can cause big bulky muscle but this comes with tons of training, lots of weight, and lots of food. In general strength training helps tone and firm muscles. For women they do not possess the hormones needed to build big bulky muscles, and even men struggle with getting them. Men usually have to work extremely hard to achieve that huge muscular look. Weight lifting is the most common strength training exercise. As an alternative you can also try resistance band exercises, dumbbell exercises, or even kettlebell exercise they are all great alternatives to weight lifting.

Lifting weights and performing resistance training can help you shrink those fat cells. After age 25, the average person begins to lose a percentage of their muscle each year. Each pound of muscle burns somewhere around 37.5 calories per day. As you lose muscle, your body will then of course, burn less calories. If you eat the same number each year but your body burns fewer calories, you store more of those calories as fat.

Also, most people lose even more muscles when they try to lose weight. This is because they are dieting and/or performing cardio exercise. Resistance exercises build and/or maintain muscle, if you are not performing this type of exercise and eating fewer calories then you burn each day you will lose weight by burning fat and MUSCLE. This is why resistance exercise is so important not only does it keep your muscle toned it also help prevent the loss of them, and increase your loss of fat. For women it also helps build up bone strength for the later years in life and helping to prevent osteoporosis.