Women fitness body-builders versus women weightlifters

Professional women body-builders.  If you train and eat like one, you will look like one.  The emotional turmoil these ladies go through to get below 10% body-fat is undeniably and undoubtedly the worse anguish anyone should have to go through.  It is a physcological nightmare of having to deprive your body of its natural right to nourish itself.  To derail your natural chemical and hormonal systems is a physiological train-crash.   Granted they’re not like this all the time, but their “cut” period is 22 weeks out from competition day.  After competition day it is quite well known in the industry that some ladies go on a 10-12 week eating binge only to put on 10 kilos of fat, due to the trauma of the previous weeks.  For every action, there is a total and opposite reaction.  I have total respect for these women, but I don’t train or eat like one.  It is not my sport, nor my idea of a fun time.  Please refer to any women’s fitness magazine to see what they are like.

Professional women weight-lifters.  Once again, if you train like one and eat like one, you will look like one.  Don’t let images of 110k of woman put you off the deriviative type lifts you will be performing during this strength regime.  Even though the lifts are exactly the same type of lifting you will be doing, you will not be doing it twice a day for 5 times a week, like these Olympic ladies do.  The secrets to Olympic weight-lifting is pure leg muscle and hip drive.  To snatch 130k of weight, trust me you better have 100k of pure leg-muscle.

I have met some of these women and trained with these women.  They are phenomenal machines (and have amazing core stability, leg-strength and pressing power) and they are just like you and me.  They are Mums and wives and have to give up a lot of time from their family just to train up to 15 hours a week.  To see a woman walk up to the bar and snatch it above her head in .8 seconds is an amazing biomechanical feat and it takes years and years of training.  But once again, if I asked that same woman to chin-up her own body weight she can’t do it.  I’m serious.  The sport of weight-lifting is legs not arms.  It is leg power not upper body power.  And this is why I chose not to concentrate wholly on weight-lifting.  It’s a sport about who can snatch and clean & jerk the most, not about getting one’s chin over the bar.

This strength programme will train you symmetrically.  You’ll be just be as strong in the shoulders and arms as well as your legs.  Unlike all the female personal trainer in brisbane women’s fitness magazines out there.

You will lose body-fat.  But you won’t lose less then 10% body fat and look like a body-builder.

You will build muscle.  But you will not look like a body-builder because I have you eating in surplus.  Did she just say “surplus”?  More on nutrition later.

To have a body that is fit looking, have muscle definition and still look womanly you are going to have to start training and eating like one.

Just one more example of how training affects our body-composition.  Ever admired the look of a female sprinter.  I certainly have.  Womanly.  Physically strong and powerful.  Great muscle definition, but certainly still womanly.  Women’s fitness magazines should dedicate more stories to our elite athletes.