The Biggest Mistake Women Make

The Biggest Mistake Women Make

Why women who only do cardio will never achieve the results like that of their weight training and cardio using counterparts do. I did say never. This is a bold statement that will surely aggravate a few people but I assure you I will back it up enough to change the minds of most non-believers.

Unfortunately this cardio myth will not die! Even with the overload of client testimonials that tell all the truth I still am asked questions like the following: “My daughter keeps telling me I need to do weight training in addition to my cardio. I started lifting weights once but I stopped losing weight. Do you agree that I should lift weights as well?”
“I do weight training and cardio and the scale just doesn’t move. I have noticed my clothes fit loser but I can’t see the difference. Do you have any advice?”
I want to start this by saying “Throw away your scale!”  There are many points to cover in those two questions. I am going to cover them in a point by point fashion.

1. Women who only do cardio are missing out!

If you are not doing any resistance training you are not building muscle. I know there are a few of you saying “I don’t want big muscles”, good it’s not naturally possible. Now that you understand I'm not talking about big man-like muscles but just simply maintaining and building muscle we can move on. While it's true that cardio does involve muscles, it's not designed to "build" muscle. Most women look at images of 'fit' women who are not only in shape but have a nice feminine muscle quality about them. They want to achieve this by doing cardio but completely forgetting the women in question probably does a fair amount of weight training as well. I mean let’s face it without resistance you cannot build muscle or maintain muscle. This brings us to the next point.

2. Women who have more muscle burn more fat!

That’s right. You read that correctly. The more muscle you have, the higher your metabolic rate and the higher your metabolic rate the more fat you burn. So if you train with weights and gain some muscle you will burn more calories sitting there reading this. Muscle burns more calories per hour then fat. Yes, you will burn even more calories when you work out. Your body has to burn calories to move that muscle.
What this means to you is….

A female who does cardio and weight trains to build up some muscle (while keeping her goals in mind) will burn more fat then a female who only does cardio and does not use muscle to their advantage. I'm not advocating females build up slabs of Olympian style muscle! I'm just confirming the fact that a woman who has more muscle then a woman that does not will burn more calories per hour and will burn more fat.

3. Your scale is a liar. Remember I said to throw it away.

I love this one! All weight is not created equal. Is the weight water, fat or muscle? People who get caught up in weight are bound to lose the battle of getting fit. If you weigh 150 lbs and you lose 20 lbs in a year everybody would give you congratulations. Maybe some would throw a party.

Until you told them you lost 25 lbs of muscle.

Now people think you are ill and wonder if you are okay.

Weight is a poor indicator of progress. You can lose fat around the midsection, your clothes will feel and fit looser and you might actually weight more because you are building muscle and burning fat. This is cause for celebration. Maybe going down a size or two but gaining 10 lbs should be cause for a party.

You see, the scale is an okay way to measure blanket progress but if you really want to know how you are doing, you should take pictures, take body fat measurements and do visual inspections. If you lose muscle there is no cause for celebration.

Far too many people use their scale as an indicator of progress when in fact they have no idea if it's fat, water or muscle they are losing. If you are just losing weight you are just making a smaller version of the same fat person.

4. Weight training with cardio is the ULTIMATE tool for success.

I want you to picture yourself 5 years from now. Would you rather:

Option 1): Be the correct weight but just rail thin with no curves, Low body fat but just bones and minimal muscle?

Option 2): Be the correct weight but be shapely, nice muscle tone and with a definite 6 pack of abs. Radiant and healthy?

If you picked Option 2, you win the prize! And getting to Option 2 is as simple as building muscle to increase your metabolic rate and using cardio as a fat burning tool. With a balance nutritional plan based on your metabolic rate you have all the tools you need.

And now you realize that women, who only do cardio, think that they will get bulky by weight training, are worried about what the scale says over actual results, and only use cardio will NEVER achieve the results they want.

By just having some muscle with weight training, you will burn more calories sleeping then before! In fact, truth be told, you'll burn more calories and burn more fat doing everything. So what are you waiting for get the right plan and get started!