<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e50e7fc8-513a-4d24-80c3-f7e4c71e12b6/E9A5EDEB-1C9E-4568-A17A-D8C6E5AA3F8C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rippedbiceps.com/strength-training-women" href="http://rippedbiceps.com/strength-training-women" style="font-size: 11px;">rippedbiceps.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rippedbiceps.com/strength-training-women">Yes, strength training for women <SPAN>is</SPAN> necessary.  Ladies, you can’t just do cardio and ab workouts and expect to get the thin, toned body that you want.  One of the typical things I hear when I say strength training for women is necessary is, “But I don’t want to get big and bulky!”</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rippedbiceps.com/strength-training-women"><P>Trust me, gals, this is not an issue whatsoever.  It’s very hard even for guys to put on muscle mass; we can’t just lift weights and start to look like Arnold.  Now if it’s hard for guys, it’s nearly impossible for women.  First of all, we have much more testosterone in our bodies.  Testosterone is required to build muscle mass.  For a woman to build muscles like a guy, she would have to get testosterone and other pro-hormone injections.  On top of that, a woman’s body is naturally smaller than a guys; it’s hard to pack on a large amount of muscle mass onto a relatively small frame.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E9A5EDEB-1C9E-4568-A17A-D8C6E5AA3F8C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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