5 Tips For Muscle Growth As A Woman

Building muscle improves your body composition, as you’ll be leaner even at a higher weight. It supports insulin sensitivity, boosts metabolic health, and helps break through weight loss plateaus while improving overall performance and hormone balance. In short, it’s a very healthful thing to do.

But there are ways people can err, so here’s how to do it best:

Mistakes to avoid

There are five key things to bear in mind:

1. Don’t obsess over the scale: your overall bodyweight will probably increase; don’t worry about that; it doesn’t mean you have necessarily put on fat. Indeed, muscle weighs more than fat in any case.
2. Don’t worry about eating too much: unless you really go out of your way to overeat, eating larger amounts according to your hunger will not result in overeating. Simply, your body needs more fuel in order to build muscle, and that’s fine and is to be expected.
3. Don’t overdo cardio: it’s easy to think “I must stay trim while putting on muscle” and look to cardio to facilitate that, but the reality is that strength training will boost your metabolism anyway, whereas cardio can sap your energy that was needed for muscle-building (and, famously, can result in a metabolic slump)
4. Don’t go too easy… or too hard! Lest that seem like a difficult directive to follow, this means: train hard yes, but make sure to get adequate rest also! Both are critical for muscle growth—without hard training, your muscle will have no reason to grow, and without rest, your body will be unable to do more than maintenance at most. So: train hard, rest well.
5. Don’t eat junk just to hit calorie/macro goals. Quality still matters, even if the numbers are higher than you’d normally be taking.

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