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.