Archive for March, 2008

Published by Elle Nash on 31 Mar 2008

How to set goals as female bodybuilders

It really is amazing how many people just don’t know what they want. They know now what they have isn’t what they want, but if they had what they wanted, they’d just know. That sounds like a good theory, but that’s the idea that riches will just mysteriously fall into your lap. Most people that get what they want know about it before hand. Ask yourself now, what do you want?

I’m going to guess you gave something you want, which is great, but it’s extremely vague. You said something like “I want more muscles”, “I want to get by body percentage down”, etc. Those are much better than having nothing, but these goals are unmeasurable. Measuring is the key to success because it gives you a way to calibrate your method. If you’re trying to lower your body fat percentage, very little work can be done to lower that 1% or a lot of work for 5%. You have to ask yourself, what you want and be exact as you can. “I want to put on 5lbs of muscle”, “I want to drop my body fat to 15%”, etc.

Those goals are great and they’re getting better, but there is one more thing to put into it, a deadline. Deadlines have a very powerful effect on you. Think back to school when you had a term paper due. A week before it’s due, you may take a few attempts at it, and write a few paragraphs, but more than anything you will do the bulk of writing the night before it is due. Why? Because of the pressure of a deadline. IF you set deadlines for yourself than you’re going to unlock the key to pressuring yourself. “I want to gain 5lbs of muscle by next month”, “I want to drop my body fat percentage to 15% by June”, etc. These are how goals are supposed to look.

Write them down on a piece of paper and leave it by your nightstand. Read it a few times in the morning and a few times before you get to bed. We want you to permeate these goals in your mind.

Tomorrow I’ll post a nice article on figuring out how to reach these goals.

Published by Elle Nash on 27 Mar 2008

Weightlifting For Women Exercises

Weightlifting for women is a growing community of women that are just opening up to the benefits of a weightlifting routine. It is still pretty taboo for a woman to hit the weights as regularly as guys do, but the benefits are there, so I’m here to share some great exercises to try.

Squats: This is pretty simple. Find a rack, put a barbell on it, get under the bar and pick it up while supporting the weight on the back shoulders. Squat up and down. This will give you a great butt.

Skull Crushers: Grab a dumbbell, and hold it directly over your head. Make sure you get a good grip. Slowly lower the dumbbell behind your head, than push it back up above your head. This will work the back of your upper arm and help tone it up.

Dumbbell Bench Press on a Ball: Find one of the big balls in the gym, and take it over to the dumbbell area. Grab two dumbbells, and lie back on the ball. Make sure your upper back is supported by the ball, cock your elbows out and push the weight up and down. This will work your chest and burn a lot of calories.

Barbell Bent Over Rows: All you need is a barbell, bend over slightly; roughly 30 degree angle. Keep your back straight, elbows tucked in and pull the weight up to your chest. This will work your back and burn a lot of calories.

These four exercises are enough weightlifting for women. Don’t over do it at the gym and take your time. Use lightweights first, just to get a feel for it. If you do these exercises on a regular basis, you’ll lose fat, get toned and be in progress for the body you want.

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Published by Elle Nash on 26 Mar 2008

Easy Weight Training For Women

Weight training for women is an amazing tool for weight loss. Lifting weights burns so much more calories than cardio activities. The process of repairing muscles is a constant burning of calories for 48 hrs since you worked out. That’s why it is so good!

Dumbbell Press: Lie back on a bench and start pushing the dumbbells up in the air. This will work your chest and the back of your arms. It’ll help you drop fat and tone those arms.

Bent Over Rows: Grab a barbell and just bend over, keeping your back straight. Lift the weight up to your chest, while keeping your elbows tucked in. This will get your back worked, which is a major muscle that will result in huge calorie burns.

Dumbbell Squats: Grab a set of dumbbells and just hold them at your side. Keep your back and squat down into a chair position, stand back up. This will give your legs a great workout, which result in a lot of calories burning.

These are more than enough exercises for weight training for women. This will work your entire body. I’ve given exercises that are less intimidating, by using dumbbells.

If you’re looking for more great exercises, get yourself a copy of Female Strength Training and Conditioning.

Published by Elle Nash on 25 Mar 2008

Tips To Increase Female Muscles

Increasing muscle size for women can be a daunting task. Women aren’t designed genetically to put on large sums of mass. It was designed to be flexible and slim. But don’t let that get you down, because it just takes a plan to put on muscles. That’s why I have these tips to help you increase your female muscles and become a successful bodybuilder, if you choose to.

Tip: The process of protein synthesis is a level(like insulin) that determines whether your body is in the position to repair muscle tissue and other lean body mass. Keeping this level up is key to long term muscle growth. If you have extended periods of time where protein synthesis is low, your body isn’t building muscle tissue. Now if you’re looking for more information on controlling your protein synthesis, please get my Free eBook.

Tip: Eat a high amount of carbohydrates before you workout. Carbs are your energy food and will give you the energy you need to lift all those weights to the max. If you’re not performing at optimum rate at the gym, your results will be sour. Keep your self well fueled and you’ll do well.

Tip: Plan it out. When you make plan, especially ones that break down to day to day activity, your chances of success go up exponentially. There’s no guessing. There’s no thinking about what to do on those down days. You just follow the plan. If you need more information on a plan to follow, try the Iron Dolls book. It will give the necessary plan to follow for success.

Now the tips presented here will help female muscles grow. Remember that you need to put in the necessary TIME to get this to happen. It isn’t a hard process, but one that requires consistent DEDICATION over time. Good luck.

Published by Elle Nash on 25 Mar 2008

Easy Strength Training For Women

Most people would say that strength training for women is a no-no. They are quite wrong. The benefits of strength training can leave all women with very toned feminine bodies and added confidence from the power they will possess. Simple strength training for women is definitely a lifestyle all women should try.

The first thing that needs to be done is getting a membership at a local gym. Variety is the spice of life and the same thing applies to getting in strength training. Don’t be intimidated by the other people that are “skinny” or good shape. You are there to improve yourself and that’s nothing to be ashamed of.

Major Muscle Groups

  • Chest
  • Back
  • Legs(thighs, butt)
  • Core(Abs)

Minor Muscle Groups

  • Shoulders
  • Arms
  • Calves

Since strength training is hard on the body, you need to determine where you get the most bang for your buck. In this case you always want to start doing your major muscle groups. This allows you to work more muscles and eventually burn more calories this way. To add to that, you usually have to use your minor muscles to do your major muscle groups. Don’t waste your time doing tricep exercises, when you could be doing bench press.

Last part of this whole process is breaking it all up. You can’t goto the gym everyday and work the same muscle groups. Your body needs time to repair and this can take days. What you’ll want to do is break it up into sections that focus on major muscle groups and minor muscle groups.

For example:

  • Chest, Shoulders, Triceps
  • Back and Biceps
  • Legs and Calves

This is more than enough information for proper strength training for women. Just keep doing this on a regular basis and always switch it up, and you’ll have great results.

If you’re looking for a more detailed information on strength training, you can click here.

Published by Elle Nash on 24 Mar 2008

How to be a muscular female

If you desire a muscular female body than you’ve come to the right place. Often these things aren’t as difficult as you think. It is a difficult for a female to put on muscle, but it’s the dedication to the process that yields the results you are looking for.

The first thing you want to do is apply the ideals of Darwinism. “Adapt to your environment or die”. This is the position you want your muscles to be in. You want them to think that they’ll die if they don’t grow. They will die, if they can’t pick up that weight. This is the core of all bodybuilding for both men and women.

The other part is your diet. Lifting weights doesn’t make you big. In fact you can lift weights to become a skinny Barbie Doll. The fact is that the diet determines the results, not the actual weight lifting routine. Remember that you’ll need to eat every 2-3 hrs to keep your muscles with enough nutrition to grow. If you take one piece of information off this site, that would be it.

You’ll also want to check out Womens Bodybuilding Guide. You’ll find a much more in depth breakdown of what you’ll need to do. Remember, it’s not that being a muscular female is a difficult thing, it’s that you need to apply it for the long term and this book will give you the necessary information to do that.

Published by Elle Nash on 22 Mar 2008

Try Weight Lifting For Women

Weight lifting for women is considered an odd topic, almost taboo. Most women are afraid to do it because it’s something men do. Even though the majority of weight lifting is done by man, there is a growing community of females joining in with the fabulous benefits of weight lifting.

The most significant point you’ll get from this is the calorie burning that will happen over a longer period of time than cardio. When you lift weights, your body takes 48 hrs to repair that muscle tissue. That leaves you with 48 hrs of calorie burning, while you’re sitting at work or while watching your favorite television show. Can’t say that about cardio.

Recently I purchased the Female Strength Training and Conditioning Ebook and I was very surprised at how good it was. It’s the first book I’ve got my hands on that is designed just for women. The exercises always leave my muscles in a state of shock and I’m always drenched in sweat when I finish. That’s how I judge whether something is good or not.

After going through this for a few weeks, I can say that I have improved speed, agility and power. I don’t tire out anymore when I’m outside doing yard work. I even dropped a couple pounds of solid fat from my body.

Click here for Female Strength Training and Conditioning Ebook. You can instantly download it and get to work right now! That’s why YOU need to try weight lifting for women now.

Published by Elle Nash on 21 Mar 2008

Learn Bodybuilding For Women

Bodybuilding for women is a difficult task for women. The two reasons for that is first, it’s taboo for women to lift weights, second, women don’t produce as much testosterone as men do. When I started out, I found it difficult to get any reasonable information. All the articles, books and trainers were geared toward men. None knew how to do it for a female.

The first step in bodybuilding, is to measure where you are, right now. You can’t tell if you’re successful if you can’t measure it. Find out the size of your arms, chest, stomach, waist, and legs. Weigh yourself and get your hands on a caliper and measure your body fat percentage.

Your body has a thing called “protein synthesis”. This basically has to do with how much protein is in your system. It’s very similar to insulin. When your protein synthesis is up, your body is in the position to repair muscle. If your protein synthesis is down, your body isn’t in the position to build muscle.

Calibration is the key to all successes. You need to measure yourself and see how things are progressing. If you’re trying to gain a pound this week, and after all that training you’re down 2lbs, you have to recalibrate. This would mean eating more food, since your body obviously isn’t getting enough. If you end up putting on 5lbs in a week, you’re probably eating too much. Calibration is the key to success.

Even though bodybuilding for women can be tough, this process is a simple way to keep in control. Measure, experiment, measure and calibrate. That is essentially the process. Follow it and it will lead you to success.

A great guide that you may want to pick up is Iron Dolls: Female Bodybuilding Secrets Revealed. I’ve used this when I started out and have had great success with it.

Published by Elle Nash on 20 Mar 2008

Finding a Stellar Female Bodybuilding Diet

Finding a great female bodybuilding diet can be an overwhelming process. The 99% of the information that is available is designed for men and men only. Female bodybuilding is something very new and still quite small on a national scale. When it comes to men and bodybuilding, they have a much easier time, since they produce high amounts of testosterone. That doesn’t mean women can’t put on muscle, it just means that more work with correct information is what is need to get a proper female bodybuilding diet.

The first no-no is the trainers at your local gym. I’m not trying to pick on these people, but their main area of expertise is general information. They’re out to give general information to general people at the gym. As a female bodybuilder, you’re not trying to do something that the general person is doing. As well, these trainers are free, and as you’ve probably heard before, there is no free lunch. All they’ll teach you to do is tone up your body, not bodybuilding.
The first thing you need to do is take a look at the credentials behind the information you’re getting. If this person hasn’t worked with bodybuilding for women in the past, you’re probably going to be mislead. They’ll just try to wing it and give you information designed for a man. In the process they make some money, you waste time and lose your money.
What you’ll want to do next is find out some basic knowledge on female bodybuilding diets. If you don’t know the basics, these people will take advantage of you just like a used car salesman. The basics include spreading your meals out over your day. Eating a small portioned meal every 2-3hrs, eating breakfast, getting 8-9hrs of sleep every night, etc. If they’re telling you to do anything that contradicts these basic elements, you need to drop their service or product.
Finally, remember that you’re looking to buy someones information. You don’t necessarily have to buy their time. If you get a personal trainer that physically comes to the gym with you, you’ll be paying big money for that person. To be truthful you’ll never really need to have someone to come to the gym with you unless you need your butt kicked. It’s much cheaper and easier to get a book. If you have the will to apply it, than buying someones time is just stupid. When I got started out, I picked up a copy of Iron Dolls: Female Bodybuilding Secrets Revealed. I tried it out for a while to test the grounds, and I started to do great. I was putting on over 8lbs of lean mass a month. I experimented with an actual personal trainer that cost $50/hr. He was telling me to do things that contradicted the book and I found myself only gaining around 1-2lbs a month. I dropped that personal trainer like a sack potatoes and went back to the philosophy in that book.
With these steps it should be much easier to find a female bodybuilding diet that you can follow and have great success with.

Published by Elle Nash on 19 Mar 2008

Weight Lifting for Women Tips


Most people would say that weight lifting for women is a futile task. They would quote that a woman’s body isn’t designed to handle heavy weights and grow. They’re wrong. Men and women are different, but that doesn’t mean we can’t achieve the same goals. Men produce a high amount of testosterone, which will allow them to grow muscles far larger than we can. That’s not to say we can’t perfect our bodies with weight lifting.


Tip 1: Get a membership at the gym and workout there. Many females are very self-conscious about their body and really have no desire to do this in public. The problem with working out at home is the plateau effect. With a gym membership you’re granted access to many pieces of equipment and are able to get around any plateau that comes your way.


Tip 2: Compound weight lifting is far more effective than isolated weight lifting. This means that to get the best results, you need to work out many muscle groups in a single exercise. Examples of this would be squats, bench press and deadlifts.


Tip 3: Keep your weight lifting sessions to under an hour. Most women think they have to slave at the gym for a few hours and this is false. Ideally, 30-45minute would be great, but sometimes things run long and you may end up at 60 minutes. The point is not to over work.


Tip 4: Have a consistent routine. It doesn’t matter if you miss a workout once in awhile. It doesn’t matter if you splurge on some fatty food. The thing that counts is that you’re doing the work on a consistent basis. This is what will give you the results long term.


With these tips, weight lifting for women becomes a much easier task and one that is more fulfilling. Remember that results aren’t instant, and you won’t see the effects of your workouts for months down the road.

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