Health and Fitness

Myths provide our societies with irrational fears and often lead to individuals to stray from the right course of action. One of these myths happens to revolve around female bodybuilding; a lot of women shy away from weightlifting falsely thinking that it will make them look masculine and butch. This myth has been spreading for years now, although the biological factors in a female’s body could never allow such a thing without interference of steroids and hormone treatment.

Testosterone, a hormone found in abundance in a man’s body, helps a man to develop muscles and bulk up. Women on the other hand do have this hormone but in small quantities, thus they do not look buffed up no matter how much they exercise.

Weightlifting or strength training is actually crucial for women because of its many health benefits such as: maintenance of healthy bones, depression prevention, and back pains. Women weightlifters tend…