Women and Weightlifting

Weightlifting will not make women "unfeminine" or masculine unless it's taken to an extreme. By extreme, we mean spending hours a day in the gym with a strictly regimented nutrition plan over several, dedicated years and lifting extremely heavy weights.

Weightlifting can be a women's best friend if her goal is to sculpt certain body parts or lose weight. Fat is bigger than muscle, pound for pound. The image below demonstrates that five pounds of fat is bigger than five pounds of muscle.