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Women's Body Building - Women Build Muscle Just Like Men

by stvalentine | May 7, 2008 at 04:05 am

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Women bodybuilding may be considered a new trend and a matter of concern for many women. A lot of Women nowadays want to build muscles and do their best and a lot of efforts to have their muscles look like those of Men, as if they were cloned.

May be the only thing in which women's weight training differs from that of men's is that the kind of weights they use to train might be a little less heavier when compared to men's weight training equipment. This is because of the nature of women's body but then even this has been proven wrong many times as a lot of women body builders have lifted weights equal to that of their male counterparts.

A lot of people seem to have the misconception that women cannot take part in heavy weight training methods and that their bodies are not suitable for such strenuous methods of training. You can safely say that none of it is true and there have been a lot of them in the past and there are a lot of them right now who could be quoted as the right examples to prove this misconception wrong.
Women also take part in heavy weight training schedules, work out like crazy each and every day, take care of the nutrition part, keep their body very fit, and also take part in a lot of amateur and professional competitions. In fact, some of the women's competitions are as popular as men's competitions. Also, sponsors these days have realized the potential for women's competitions and are more than happy to sponsor such events. But it was not the case all the time as it was hard to find sponsors for body building competitions which had only women those days. But times have changed for good and you can see the difference these days which is very much visible.

Women bodybuilding has become a controversial matter and many people assume that this is a new point of equality that women call for, regardless of their body nature and that God created them for further noble missions and to be nice, soft and cute.

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Mikasi

at 04:13 on May 7th, 2008

Author Harry Crews wrote a really interesting (and good) novel about a debate going on in womens body building during the early 90's- which is better, bulk or grace. The novel is called "Bodies" and if you are interested in women's bodybuilding at all it is a fine read. Look it up under the author's name (its on the third page of entries) on Amazon. And no, I do not have a copy listed there for sale. :)