Why Women Should Train Different Than Men
Having said that how certain exercises are performed will be determined by the structure of your pelvis and how loose or tight your ligaments are.
Why women should train different than men. Aesthetically speaking i understand that men and women have varying goals but they re actually achieved with the same programs. Here is what a woman who exercises needs to know so she can get the kind of results she wants. After trying our in app yoga classes we often have a lot of 8fitter s asking are women more flexible than men. This means that women can and should take shorter rests between sets than men which provides the opportunity to perform more total work in each training session relative to men.
Estrogen causes women s bodies to hold more fat than men. Allow me to elaborate on the other 10 by going through the major physical differences between men and women that affect weight training and the impact they should have on a woman s training program. Women have a tendency to think that they have special needs being a female and if they trained in a similar manner to that of a guy they would start resembling a guy. That s why the key to a good bench press for the female lifter is strong triceps and good mobility.
Men generally don t need to perform a lot of isolation work to get a great physique. In most cases men and women should train the same. For starters let me give you the tl dr of this article 90 of a woman s training should be just like a man s. Take shorter rests between sets.
Having larger and more type i fibers allows women to handle more volume than men. The notion that women can t be strong athletic or lift heavy is unfortunate silly and simply needs to stop. Women can handle more volume. Women need more isolation work especially in the upper body.
This can be done by performing more reps per set. That s not the only reason. Growing more muscles then they desire. Cassie white speaks to amanda smith about whether men and women need to train differently.
And often these factors are influenced by your gender. Because women have more slow twitch muscles they should train their type i fibers more than men to grow to their full potential. When a woman goes to the gym to exercise she probably don t want the same kind of results as a man wants and thats why she should not train like the men do. Regarding the bench press women have to rely more on their triceps shoulders and back.
The biological purpose of this is to enable women s bodies to be more capable of child bearing.