Why Women Should Strength Train
Women should absolutely lift weights. While our culture tends to focus on women slimming down or looking good, at Artemis we want you to remember that our value as women is not determined by our body fat percentage, weight, or body shape. We are all so much more than that and here at Artemis we want to remind you of all the benefits you can get from strength training.
Strength training is empowering.
Many women believe they could never do a pushup or a pull up or other physical feats. With proper, consistent training, those goals are most certainly within reach. Without fail, any client we’ve trained and who successfully crushes their fitness goal, is instantly empowered.
Strength training allows you to discover and appreciate all that your body is capable of doing—and then do more.
Our culture places a great deal of emphasis on appearance, convincing women that how we look is the most important thing. With such a constant focus on aesthetics, it’s easy to lose sight of other things that matter to us. Lifting weights shifts the focus toward our abilities. Once you achieve one of your fitness goals, you start wondering what else you can do, eagerly ready for the next challenge. When you focus on what your body CAN do, and appreciate its many abilities, fat loss (if that’s a goal of yours) just becomes a side effect.
Strength training makes you feel great.
The primary goal of many popular workout programs is simply to burn as many calories as possible and so it's not surprising that women feel exhausted, sore, and unmotivated at the end of those brutal workouts. Strength training, when done properly, can actually make you feel great. Fatigue is not an indicator of a successful workout. What matters is that you do your best and improve your performance, gradually, when possible. At Artemis, we encourage you to finish a weight lifting workout feeling better than when you started. This not only helps you train more effectively and consistently over the long-haul, but it also helps you maintain motivation to continue training and making progress.
Strength training positively affects your entire life.
Lift weights and strive to get stronger, gradually, and you’ll be surprised at how much easier your daily tasks become. Pay attention to your energy levels, your mood, the quality of your sleep, and how effortlessly you can play with your kids, lift heavy grocery bags, carry your luggage up stairs, walk the dog, and so many other countless activities required of your body every day. Strengthening your body makes everything better—you’ll see.
Strength training builds you up, mentally and physically.
You might be seeing the trend here by now: lifting weights makes you a better version of yourself. It’s something you do to build yourself up, not tear yourself down. Your exercise routine is not punishment for eating too much or for any other “negative” reason. It’s an awesome tool that allows you to become the best version of yourself in many amazing ways.
When you embrace strength training as a tool to become the best version of yourself, and use it to explore all the incredible things your body can do, in the process you’ll discover for yourself how much more it adds to your life.
Come give us a try at Artemis Fitness to discover how fitness can enhance your life for today and for many years to come.