Weight training makes Women bulky and masculine.

1-Weight   training   makes   Women   bulky   and   masculine.

Due to the fact that ladies do not, & cannot, naturally produce as much testosterone of the main hormones responsible for increasing muscle size) as males do, it is impossible for a woman to gain immense amounts of muscle mass by merely touching some weights. 

Regrettably, the picture that may come to your mind is that of professional female bodybuilders. Most of these ladies, regrettably, use anabolic steroids (synthetic testosterone) along with other drugs in order to accomplish that high degree of muscularity. In addition, most also have nice genetics coupled with an unbelievable work ethic that enable them to gain muscle quickly when they spend hours in the gym lifting very heavy weights. Think me when I say that they do not look like that by accident. Ladies who conduct weight training without the use of steroids get the firm & fit cellulite-free looking body that you see in most fitness/figure shows these days.

2-Exercise increases your chest size.

 Sorry girls. Women's breasts are composed mostly of fatty tissue. Therefore, it is impossible to increase breast size through weight training. As a matter of fact, in case you go below 12 percent body fat, your breast size will decrease. Weight training does increase the size of the back, so this misconception probably comes from confusing an increase in back size with an increase in cup size. The only way to increase your breast size is by gaining fat or getting breast implants.

3-Weight training makes you stiff and musclebound.

If you perform all exercises through their full range of motion, flexibility will increase. Exercises like flyes, stiff-legged deadlifts, dumbbell presses, & chin-ups stretch the muscle in the bottom range of the movement. Therefore, by performing these exercises correctly, your stretching capabilities will increase.

4-If you stop weight training your muscles turn into fat.

 This is like saying that gold can turn in to brass. Muscle & overweight are different types of tissue. What happens plenty of times is that when people pick to go off their weight training programs they start losing muscle due to inactivity (use it or lose it) & they also usually drop the diet as well. Therefore bad eating habits combined with the fact that their metabolism is lower due to inactivity, & lower degrees of muscle mass, give the impression that the subject's muscle is being turned in to overweight while in point of fact what is happening is that muscle is being lost & overweight is being accumulated.

5- Weight training turns overweight in to muscle.
More alchemy. This is the equivalent of saying that you can turn any metal in to gold; don't they wish! The way a body transformation occurs is by gaining muscle through weight training and losing overweight through aerobics and diet simultaneously. Again, muscle and overweight are different types of tissue. They cannot turn in to the other.

6-  As long as you exercise you can eat anything that you want.

 How I wish this were true also! However, this might not be further from the truth. Our individual metabolism determines how lots of calories they burn at rest & while they exercise. If they eat more calories than they burn on a consistent basis, our bodies will accumulate these additional calories as overweight irrespective of the amount of exercise that they do. This myth may have been created by people with such high metabolic rates (hardgainers) that no matter how much they eat or what they eat, they seldom meet or exceed the amount of calories that they burn in day unless they put their mind to doing so. Therefore, their weight either remains stable or goes down. In the event you are confused about nutrition, read Nutrition Fundamentals.

7- Women only require to do cardio and in the event that they pick to lift weights, 

they ought to be light.
Initially, in case you only did cardio then muscle and overweight would be burned for fuel. needs to do weights in order to get the muscle building machine going and thus prevent any loss of muscle tissue. Females that only concentrate on cardio will have a hard time achieving the look that they require. As far as the lifting of light weights, this is more nonsense. Muscle responds to resistance and if the resistance is light, then there will be no reason for the body to alter.