The Best Weight Lifting Routine For Females.

There truly is no "best" weight lifting routine for women, because any number of training programs can get similar results. In fact, you should switch your lifting routine every four to six weeks to force your body to adapt to new training stimuli. Women do not need to train differently than men, according to "The Female Training Bible." Besides having one-sixteenth of the testosterone of men, women's bodies respond to training in a very similar way, except that they cannot gain much muscle mass due to their hormonal profile. However, targeting training for growth hormone-release may help women because it plays an important role in their muscles' recovery process.

÷ Build and Burn Super-Sets:

For this weight lifting routine, you will utilize super-sets, which are done by performing one exercise and then immediately doing another with very little rest between them. The weekly breakdown might look like this:

 Shoulders on Monday, arms on Tuesday, legs on Wednesday, chest on Thursday and back on Friday. For each day and muscle group, you choose one to three super-sets, each made up of three sets with 12, 10 and eight repetitions respectively. For your back for example, you choose two super-sets, combining pull-ups and straight-arm pull-downs into one and bent-over rows and machine pull-overs into the other. On the first super-set you would do a 12-rep set of pull-ups, rest 30 seconds, do a 12-rep set of straight-arm pull-downs, rest 30 seconds, do a 10-rep set of pull-ups, rest 30 seconds and continue alternating until you have completed three sets of each for the prescribed number of reps. Then proceed to the bent-over rows and machine pull-over super-set and do the same thing.

÷ 10 X 10 Workouts:

The 10X10 weight lifting routine is very simple, but can provide quick and impressive results, according to "The Ultimate 10X10 Mass Workout." This program crunches a lot of exercise volume, meaning sets and repetitions, into a short amount of time. It also helps to trigger the lactic acid response of the body, which stimulates more GH, or growth hormone production. Since women produce only a fraction of the testosterone of men, their bodies rely more heavily on GH for muscle recovery. This routine follows a four-day cycle, after which you should rest at least a day, if not two, before repeating the program. The first day you work arms and shoulders, the second day targets legs and abs, the third day is a rest day and the fourth is chest and back. Each day you pick one compound exercise for each muscle group being trained and you do 10 sets of 10 repetitions, resting 30 to 60 seconds between sets. Pick a weight you can lift for 15 reps so that you do not reach muscle failure. For example, on chest and back day, you might do 10 sets of 10 reps on the bench press and then finish with 10 sets of 10 reps at the lat pull-down machine.

How To Train Your Abdominal Muscles?

There is still a lot of confusion regarding the training of the abdominal muscles and especially few have clear ideas. Of course! Each of us is done differently and what works for me is not necessarily good for you and vice versa, then do not listen to anyone who tells you "I know how you must train your abs!", Because who says so is the first not to have understood anything.

What I urge you to do is to try on your skin the different exercises and choose 3 or 4 you hear your most or those that you like the most and run with the correct technique can (which you can read below).

Among the many debates, one concerns the choice of the optimal number of repetitions. It is better to train these muscles with weights and more reps or lighter with greater loads and fewer repetitions?

Here too, the answer is "it depends on how your body reacts." If you are not trained will not recommend to start with overweight and few repetitions, if you train then a session with overweight you do it and always doing utmost attention to technique.
In conclusion, of course, neither method is inherently better than the other because both methods are based on principles physiologically correct. It may be right to alternate phases of work with a high number of repetitions (15-25 reps) to work stages at low reps but with heavier weights (6-10 reps) bearing in mind that the purpose is not to use the maximum weight but make sure that the lighter weight seems the heaviest possible contracting at maximum and maintaining the contraction during each single repetition. However, if you use the abdominal toning to prevent low back pain, you should not use overweights to train your abs, because the first is easy to make mistakes in execution, according easy overstraining their lower back.

Any exercise you want to do to run it properly are important suggestions that are valid for all exercises that tone your abs:

1-Before starting the exercise exhale (throw out) all the air you have in the lungs

2-Run the exercise, contracting your abdominal muscles, in apnea until you're back to the starting position
Inspira (throws in air), exhale and start exercising

3-Make sure that your pelvis is always in retroversion, ie forward and the lumbar curve and not in lordosis

4-Your concentration must necessarily be focused on abdominal contraction
Stop 2/2 the point of maximum contraction all times

5-Count to three outward, that is, after you've exhaled when you start exercising and count to 2 at maximum contraction and count to 6 to return.

As for the kind of exercises do you list a few, the ones I like the most, know that there are countless others that you know looking on the internet.
- Crunch on the ground or on fitball
- Reverse Crunch on the ground or on fitball
- Crunch oblique to the ground or on fitball
- Total abdominal (+ crunch reverse crunch)
- Crunch free alternate (for oblique crunch + Crunc for reverse oblique)

Finally: do not ask me "how soon will begin to look at my turtle?" Because they do not know you first, second is not toning the abs that these magically jump out. Rather ask yourself how much fat you have in front of your abs and to eliminate this fat is not the best thing to do exercises for abs, lose weight but taking care of your power your daily movement and your mind.