How God made us Different?
The differences between men and women are
interesting. Women have one distinct disadvantage to men; they don't have
testicles. Testicles produce testosterone. Testosterone gives men the ability
to grow bigger muscles, which means they have a faster metabolism. A faster
metabolism means that they are a fat-burning machine - a quicker calorie-burning
machine. It means that they're usually stronger. As men focus more on strength
training, they tend not to lose muscles and bone density when they get older,
which means they're less likely to get osteoporosis, overweight or obese.
"Your
real strength is judged by your character.
Prabal
Arora
Do you wonder it's not muscles but mainly fat?
As women, you need to make sure that you do
strength training. Now, the real challenge with women is that they think that they
would get bigger muscles if they did strength training. The beautiful thing is
that muscle is a solid substance. It's a fast calorie burning substance, and
it's tiny. Even when you look at the elite bodybuilder women - not the ones who
are injecting testosterone - I'm talking about the natural women - their small
muscle is actually covered by the flabby stuff that sits on the outside of their
muscles. And this flab stuff is big, not the muscle.
If you have got big arms, it's usually not
your tricep and bicep muscles that are causing your arm to be significant in
size. It's usually the fat that's hanging on the outside. And that's the stuff
that starts dripping down the back of your arm. As you get stronger, your
gluteus maximus, medius venomous - the biggest muscles in your body, in your
butt get tighter. You start losing excess fat meaning you lose weight. Suppose
you have got a flabby bottom, it's not because of the muscle; it's because of
the excess of fat.
"The
duration and cause of pain while losing weight are temporary, the pain of being
over-weight and disease lasts forever.
Prabal
Arora
Why is Weight training so Important and Beneficial?
If you want to turn your body into a
fat-burning machine, you have to maintain your muscle tissue. The only way to
do that is to do strength training. So weight training doesn't have to be
complicated. It simply means that you overload your muscles. Every time you lift
something more than you can, your body has to overcompensate and get stronger
to make sure that you can lift it. So, that's a simple process.
Lose Weight with Weights
Suppose you are overweight and you do
strength training, you'll lose weight quickly because you'll speed up your
metabolism. You are building muscle tissues that you might have lost as you
have been dieting or have been inactive or got older. After about 20 years of
age, we start losing about half a pound muscle mass if we don't lift heavy. As
a human race, we are also becoming more inactive, which means our muscle tissues
waste away.
Physical fitness and endurance
Another great benefit of strength training
is that it helps with your huffy-puffy physical fitness which means doing
anaerobic exercises. If your muscles and bones are stronger, you can jump
higher, run faster and lift heavier. All the things in your life improve when you
are stronger, including your mental health - and this is mostly for women.
Mental Health and mental toughness
Unfortunately, when you look at the
statistics whether it's by a report or it is true - it seems like more women
struggle with mental health, feeling good about themselves, self-esteem,
getting into depression or feeling anxious. The beautiful thing is that when you
have got a strong mind and body, those things are less likely to happen. And
when you are doing strength training, it's a great test of your mental
toughness.
"The resistance you face while lifting weight and the
resistance you face in the real world makes you mentally strong.
-Prabal Arora
Bone and muscle strength
If you are doing a set of push-ups and want
to stop, but do a couple of them more that improves your bone strength and
muscles and increases your mental strength. It gives you a more robust head and
a vital ability to deal with challenges. Isn't that something which would make
our lives better? aren't we going to be healthier, fitter and stronger? If we did
strength training, we would have fewer chances of having mental health
challenges.
Do you wonder you can control Sugar “
Diabetes Type-II?
When you exercise hard, there are two
things you need to do to lose weight and get fit - Puff really hard by doing
anaerobic exercises and do heavy weight training. This process's energy source is
carbohydrate - glycogen for your muscles and glucose for your brain. People are
always talking about carbohydrate, glycogen, sugar and insulin challenges
because the endocrine system gets affected when we overeat sugar or too many
carbohydrates.
However, all that is sorted when you
exercise hard or do HIIT exercises (High-Intensity Interval Training) because
your muscles burn a lot of sugar, glycogen. That's what your muscles do. They burn
energy quite quickly, which is why you want to maintain your engine's size,
which is muscle. So that's another thing that strength training deals with the
whole hassle of sugar and carbohydrate control. It's not that you can go and
eat an entire stack more, but it certainly means that your body deals with the
intake of carbohydrate and sugar so much more easily.
And there's a place for it to be used up
and to be used up quickly. So that's pretty exciting. We get the long-term
benefit of being fitter and healthier. However, it's the immediate effect of
exercise that we seem to forget. We have fewer chances of killer diseases,
mental illness, catching a cold, and dementia. But the immediate effect is how
you feel after you lift something really heavy.
She wanted to KILL her Husband!!!
One of my most incredible health coaches
shared the story of a woman. She said that she would never forget the day when
one of her clients came and told her that she hated her husband because he just
left her for a younger woman. Now, the only goal she had was to kill her
husband. When my mentor asked her how could she possibly do that, she figured
out that she needed to get stronger.
So, they set a goal that she would do ten
chin-ups. The next really memorable day was when she walked up to the bar, put
her hands on the chin-up bar, and very systematically lifted her bodyweight ten
times above the bar. In between that first day and the second day, she had
become significantly more robust, both mentally and physically.
She got herself a new boyfriend, quit a job
that she didn't like and changed her wardrobe. She was a completely different
person from a self-confidence and self-esteem point of view because she got
stronger every time she went up to the chin-up bar. It was like; "I'm
going to win this thing, I'm going to beat this bar". She became both
physically and mentally stronger.
"A burning desire to change, insatiable hunger for knowledge, and
continuous development of skills will transform your body and life.
-Prabal Arora
Immediate and Long-term benefits of exercises or Weight training
The moment you have done the chin-ups and
have lifted your body weight 10, 15 times, you feel fantastic. It's not just
the long-term effect; it's the immediate effect of weight lifting, and that makes
you feel great about yourself. Now, the chemical response in your brain is just
mind-blowing. When you lift heavy things or sprint, you pump enormous amounts
of happy drugs, which are called endorphins, through your brain. So you feel terrific,
which is another exciting thing about exercise.
Do you wonder you need only a few minutes a day to lose weight?
Many people talk about that they exercise
three or four times a week. If you have an injection of a drug that makes you
incredibly high and makes you feel terrific immediately, would you inject that
daily? Not only that but also it gives you long-term side effects. You'll have
strong muscles and zhealthy bones. You’ll have fewer chances of disease and
mental illness.
"It's the Quality, not the Quantity that
matters.
Prabal Arora
So how do I exercise?
You'll live longer with a better quality of
life. Why wouldn't you be involved in physical fitness and exercise every day
as often as possible? Now the beautiful thing is that you need to do it for a
short period. If you want to benefit more from heavyweight training and anaerobic
exercises, then go harder and faster. It's not spending an hour in the gym or
outside. It takes only a few minutes a day workout, which could be
High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) or working out for a few seconds each
time repeating it several times in a day. It helps you in weight loss faster
than ever. So, the immediate effect will be even better than if you weren't
doing strength training.
So, if you want to have a lean, toned and
shapely body as a woman, why on earth would you take away the number one thing –
lifting heavyweight meaning weight lifting exercises? If you want a small body
and want to look sharp, you need to have strength training in your gym workout
plan. If you don't, you will always be on a diet or low carbs meal, plant-based
diet, keto diet or any other diet plan. You'll be permanently fighting with calories.
You'll continuously be exercising for hours because the actual active physical
activity without strong muscles and bones means you have to work out for a
longer period.
Maintaining your muscles' strength means
you retain the power of your fast metabolism, which means when you go out to do
anaerobic exercise, get huffy-puffy, you burn calories, you burn fat faster.
So, if you are a woman and don't want to be
disadvantaged by the fact that you don't have testicles, do some strength
training.