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Women’s Health

Women's Health

Part 1: Should Women Train Differently to Men?

The first step for a woman to improve their physique is quite simple: "Stop reading women’s fitness magazines!" Almost everything you read in women’s fitness magazines is all fluff, further perpetuating the many myths and stereotypes surrounding female training. There is no such thing as ‘toning’, ‘shaping’ and ‘tightening’ the muscles. Instead, what most women need to be…

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Part 2: Training Women vs. Men – 3 Key Differences You Need to Know

When training women, specific considerations needed for them fall into three categories: biomechanical, behavioural and biological. Part one of this article series highlighted some of the differences that exist between training men and women, centred predominantly around exercise selection, rest periods, volume and frequency. In this instalment, we aim to delve a little deeper and dissect…

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