Female Bodybuilding - Facts And Misconceptions

Even though female bodybuilding is gaining popularity it has never been as prominent when compared to their counterpart. Unfortunately, there are lost of misconceptions about female bodybuilding, which is doing no good in promoting it. Truth is there are always myths about bodybuilding in general. In this article, lets look at some of the common misconceptions about female weight training and bodybuilding. 

Myth # 1 - Bodybuilding will give you a masculine look.

By looking at all those women who appear in Ms.Olympiad its easy to get this opinion. But the truth in those women who appear masculine is that they want to look masculine. One of the major hormone that increases in muscle growth is testosterone and is naturally produced in male body but not in the female body. Hence female bodybuilders have an opinion that they wont be able to develop muscles unless they use steroids and drugs in order to achieve high muscularity. Women can achieve firm, fit and healthy looking body if they can workout without taking any artificial steroids and drugs.

Myth # 2 - Bodybuilding reduces agility and makes one stiff.|
Myth # 2 - You will lose your agility because of bodybuilding.|
Myth # 2 - Bodybuilding causes stiffness and reduces your agility.

This will only happen if you just want to workout certain part of your body. If your perform exercises that have a full range of motion your agility will increase. Therefore, one should be careful with the exercise you do if you want to make yourself stiff.

This is a common misconception about bodybuilding in general. This can happen if you train badly and only workout certain parts of your body. The exercises you perform have to benefit the entire range of your body. So if you have proper guidance this won't happen.
The truth is you can lose your agility and become a robot if you don't workout every part of the body. Unless and until you have a very bad trainer who doesn't tell you that you need to workout the entire range of your body, this can't happen.

Myth # 3 - Bodybuilding turns fat in to muscles.
Myth # 3 - All your fat will become muscles if you get into bodybuilding.
Myth # 3 - As a result of bodybuilding, body fat will turn to muscles.


Losing fat and gaining muscle are two different thing. If one has a high fat content in your body, then you need to have a proper diet and do aerobics if you want to lose fat. To gain muscles you need to workout. You can not turn fats into muscles just by doing weight training.
To be honest i have no idea why people have such an opinion. Fat and muscles are two different types of body tissues and they have no connection. Bodybuilding can help you build muscles but if your goal is to lose fat, then you have a healthy diet and do aerobics. Getting into bodybuilding thinking that they can turn their body fat in to muscles, is as absurd as it can get. Bodybuilding will help you to grow your muscles. But if you want to lose fat, you need to exercise and have a proper diet.
On the other hand, people also say that if you stop doing weight training, muscles will turn back in to fat. The reason many lose their muscle after stopping working is simply because of inactivity and poor eating habits.


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