Muscle Toning for Women: How to Properly Train Your Body

Muscle Toning for Women: How to Properly Train Your Body by Valerie Matyskiel

Muscle toning is a very vague word. Toning can mean something completely different to different women. So for the sake of this article, let’s say that muscle toning for women means… building tight, lean, feminine muscle… that can make you Feminine Ripped.
Here are some tips to help you develop a body that has feminine muscle… that boasts a rapid metabolism… and one that you feel proud and confident to be in.

1. Weight Training

If you’ve read any of the my other Hubpages, you know that I heavily prescribe proper weight training to all women. This is because it’s the only way to build true muscle in a woman.

Weight training workouts do not have to be long. 30 to a maximum of 40 minutes two to three times a week is all you really need to completely change your body.

It’s important to make sure you are doing full body workouts. There is no need to do any sort of split routine. A split routine is when you only work either one or two body parts each day. Unless you are doing specialized bodybuilding training… don’t do it.

2. Protein in Your Diet

It’s important as well to have protein in your diet to help build your muscle. Amino acids are the building blocks of protein and protein is the building block of your muscles.

The reason weight training is so effective is because when you’re doing it, your muscles are being torn on the smallest of levels. Your body then will sweep in and build new muscle fibers to restore and grow your muscle.

This new muscle needs protein and other nutrients to grow and become healthy. So having a diet that has healthy levels of protein is very important. I suggest that you go buy a tub of whey protein and drink one shake a day… right after your workout on workout days.

3. Make Sure You Rest

Finally for proper muscle toning for women… that’s you… you need to make sure you are getting proper rest. This is one of the coolest things about proper weight training… you need to rest a lot.

Because you are in a sense damaging your body, it is going to need time to recover before you workout again. This isn’t the case with any other form of exercise. Things like cardio, aerobics, even yoga only burn calories while you’re doing them… weight training keeps the burn going up to 48 hours after your workout.

So you actually get all the benefits of your weight training program not while your working out, but while your at rest.

I hope that helps you better understand how to get properly toned as a woman. Building strong lean muscle is the greatest thing you can do to your body and will change your life for a long long time.

Make sure you continue to learn more about the best way to do a women’s workout and get all the best information on women’s exercise you can. Before you know it your body will be something you are incredibly proud of.

About the Author
Valerie is a AFAA certified personal trainer who concentrates on helping women learn weight training. She is part of The Art of Weight Lifting team and helped create a free four video series to help you with your women’s workout. Get your copy today!