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Top 10 Reasons Heavy Weights Don’t Bulk Up the Female Athlete

- “As Todd Hamer, a strength and conditioning coach at George Mason University said, ‘Squats don’t bulk you up. It’s the ten beers a night that bulk you up.’ This cannot be emphasized enough.”

- “If you’re a female athlete and training with heavy weights (or not), you NEED to watch what you eat. Let’s be real—the main concern that female athletes have when coming to their coach about gaining weight is not their performance but aesthetics…”

- “Contrary to the ineffective light weights currently being used, heavy weights offer many benefits for women including improved body composition, stronger muscles, decreased injury rate, and stronger bones (which helps prevent osteoporosis). Let’s try lifting some heavy weights and controlling our diet and watch this logical, science-based solution make the difference we’ve been looking for.”

People kept asking me about my amazing football skills from this past weekend, this is the closest comparisons that I could find :-)

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