Toning Vs. Building Muscle

This is a woman thing.  Women say to me all the time, “I don’t want to build muscle. I just want to tone my muscles.”  Well, guess what.  It’s all the same thing.  When you work on your muscles by using resistance training, you are toning those muscles and building new muscle tissue.  (Actually, you build as you rest and as you eat.) Now, in order to become really “muscle-bound” like you see on the magazine covers, you have to eat insane amounts of protein and have an insane amount of testosterone at your body’s disposal.  Most people do not have that much testosterone naturally in their body.  And ladies, we naturally have WAY less than men do.  So unless you are “supplementing,” you are not going to become “muscle-bound.”  But if you are consistently doing the right kind of resistance training along with the right kind of aerobic training . . . and eating supportively, you will create and maintain that lean, fit, sexy look that all of us enjoy!