Workout Plans for Women That Get Results

The best workout plans for women are easy to follow, time efficient and most importantly produce results. Now I am assuming you are like most women and the results you want are to lose weight and improve your body shape. Straight away let’s replace the statement ‘lose weight’ with ‘lose body fat’. We will discuss the importance of resistance training and proper cardio work in achieving your goals. What follows are some principles to help design workout plans for women.

An effective workout plan for women should maintain muscle mass. It should also aim to build more muscle and improve strength. This is vital not only to be healthy and look good but also for everyday functionality. And lastly a good workout plan for women will implement ‘smart cardio’ not that long, slow and boring cardiovascular training I see so many women and men wasting their time and effort with.

A foundation of the workout plan should be some type of resistance training with the goal of getting stronger.

This can be body weight workouts, free weights or machines. The bottom line is to improve your strength and lift progressively heavier weights. Forget ‘toning’ and ‘sculpting’ muscles with light weights and high repetitions. This is just a waste of time. Having a nice, firm and athletic look to your muscles will not be achieved by lifting weights that a child could lift.

Many women fear that lifting heavy weights will build too much muscle and they will end up looking un-lady like. Building muscle is hard work for the body and most women do not have the genetics, testosterone or sufficient diet to build an overly muscular physique. So there is no need to worry about that (although with that being said, there are certainly more beneficial . Besides improving your appearance, exercising your muscle will also have added everyday benefits. With strong and fit muscles, those everyday tasks like carrying groceries, lifting children, climbing up the stairs and doing yard work will be so much easier. Not only should good workout plans for women help them to look better but also to be more functional.

Long and slow ‘steady state’ cardio should be replaced by high intensity interval training (HIIT). This is more effective at burning calories, burning fat, gives better cardiovascular benefits and can be done in half the time. But you can’t get something for nothing, so the payoff is that when you do HIIT you can’t be reading a magazine or chatting to your girlfriend because it involves a higher intensity of work. Pick your favorite cardio machine and alternate 30 second periods of high intensity output with 90 second periods of low intensity output. You can repeat this cycle 6-12 times.

The above article outlines how to design efficient workout plans for women. It is probably different to the current workout you are doing or any workouts that you have read. But it will not only be effective but it is also time efficient, so you can spend more time enjoying and showing off your new body rather than working out.