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Weight Training For Women

How To Build Your Body With Strength Training While Keeping Your Curves And Without Getting Bulky

How Much Protein Do You Need To Build Muscle, Lose Fat, and Maintain An Aesthetic Body?

“How much protein do I need?” is a common question many people are asking themselves when trying to get into great shape and change their body. If you follow most traditional bodybuilding advice, it’s typical to hear anywhere from 1 gram to upwards of 3 grams per pound of body weight for the optimal dose.

The difference between 1 and 3 seems negligible, but when you do the math for your own body weight and needs, the recommendations vary wildly.

Not only is protein anabolic, and absolutely necessary for building muscle, and preserving it on a fat loss diet, the old adage of ‘more is better’ is not ideal here.

By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly how much you should be consuming on a regular basis if you want more muscle, less fat, and an aesthetic physique.

Aesthetic-Based Nutrition For Women: 3 Common Progress-Tracking Pitfalls

by JC Deen

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This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Make sure you read part 1 if you missed it before reading onward.

By the way, next week we’re releasing a women’s only program with a full year’s worth of training, complete dietary guides, and a whole section on mindset and motivation. Update: HOTBOD is live.

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Nutrition for fat loss, and muscle gain is complicating, especially so when there are a ton of opinions on low carb, fad diets, and even the fallacy that you can spot reduce certain areas of your body with exercise.

Without going into the nitty gritty of exactly how much protein (update:How much protein do I need?), carbs, or fats to consume, I want to touch on a few things that have come up over and over again in my experience with clients, coaching groups and readers.

Aesthetic-Based Training For Women: Progressive Resistance + Intensity Is What Matters Most

by JC Deen

This is part 1 of a 3-part series that will be unraveling over the next week.

In part 1, we’re covering resistance training. I’ll cover why it’s the fundamental key to changing your shape in the quickest manner possible and why I feel it’s superior to any other form of exercise.

In part 2, I’ll be covering why diet can/should be secondary to training, but only when the training it’s done correctly.

In part 3, I’ll be covering the mindset and motivation aspects of creating the physique changes you want. We’ll also cover how they might make or break your efforts.

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