Increased Strength

Imagine living your life with more energy and strength to perform all of your daily tasks. You don't need help carrying out the garbage, lifting the heavy boxes at work, moving the couch in the family room, or running around with the kids. This isn't just a pipe dream. Strength training can help you perform all of these activities with ease. Women can increase their strength if the training intensity and duration are sufficient, and even retain that strength when they aren't able to work out for a while.

What about the popular notion that women are weak and can never be as strong as men? Pound for pound, it is extremely difficult for women to be as strong as men. Relatively speaking, however, women can achieve the same strength. Men are stronger because they generally have more muscular tissue than women (mostly because they are larger organisms altogether). But if you compare small samples of muscular tissue taken from a man and a woman, they do not differ in strength. So there is no reason that a woman cannot get as strong as she possibly can, within her genetic potential.