Most women don’t lift weights to bulk up and create huge muscles. They don’t want the ‘huge & muscular look’ or to compete in a bodybuilding competition. They simply know some basic facts about their bodies that make lifting weights a smart choice.

What Do They Know?

They know that lifting weights has benefits for women that don’t need to include looking like a man or bulking up.

Some of these benefits include:

1. Weight Lifting Makes Daily Tasks Easier.

Some women don’t want to depend on other people to do your daily tasks. Chores like lifting kids, handling groceries and doing laundry are all easier if a person has stronger muscles. Studies have shown that even moderate weight training for women can increase a woman's strength by up to 50 percent!

This is even true for women in their 70s and 80s who start lifting weights to be able to do the tasks that they could do when they were younger! It’s never too late to get started on a good routine.

Regularly lifting free-weights like barbells and dumbbells also forces a woman’s body to maintain balance. This will also make daily tasks outside the gym easier, improves your overall balance - and lets you win faster when wrestling with your kids!

2. Losing Body Fat

How many women don’t have a just a little body fat that they would like to lose? Then adding strength training to your exercise routine is a smart choice.

In fact, as a woman’s lean muscle increases, her resting metabolism will increase as well. This helps women to continue to burn calories all day long… even at rest. In fact, each extra pound of muscle a woman adds can burn up to 50 more calories each day. That helps to maintain a healthy weight.

3. Decreased Risk of Osteoporosis, Diabetes and Heart Disease

Weight training can increase a woman’s spinal bone mineral density by up to thirteen percent in less than a year. It can be a women's best deterrent against developing osteoporosis. Good exercise routines can also help to lower bad cholesterol and increase glucose utilization to lower the risks of heart disease and diabetes as well.

4. Makes You Feel Better

Some studies have concluded that just ten weeks of strength training can lower depression symptoms better than traditional counseling. Women who strength train commonly report feeling more confident and capable as a result of their program - which is a major plus for battling depression.

When a person exercises, their body releases powerful substances called endorphins into the body that create feelings of euphoria and an elevated feeling of wellness. These feelings can be so intense that they have been known to even mask pain.

Weight lifting also gives a woman’s body more energy! A regular strength training program, especially when done in the mornings, can give women more energy for the rest of the day without needing more coffee.

5. Looking Better

Even if women restrict their diet and eat well, their bodies need something else to keep it toned and looking good. A regular routine of both cardiovascular exercise and strength training will take a flabby body and make it look SO much better, even with very little weight loss.

These women realize that a strong, lean, healthy-looking person appears sexier than that same woman when she’s out’a shape. This also gives women more confidence because they know that not only are they healthy, but they look great too!