Resistance Workouts that will not make your legs bigger

Hello lovelies,

In today's blog post we will learn about the right kind of resistance training or simply how low-impact workouts won't bulk you up.

All of us have two types of muscle fibers:

Slow-twitch (type I)

Fast-twitch (type II)

(stay with me)

Slow-twitch muscles help enable long-endurance activities such as running, swimming, and power walking, while fast-twitch muscles fatigue faster but are used in powerful bursts of movements like sprinting, and heavy lifting.

Moves that trigger those fast twitch fibers will help create a muscular (sometime bulky) physique, while moves that trigger the slow twitch fibers help you get that leaner, toned look.

Lets compare these two pictures

First

Then look at this one,

These two lovelies are both beautiful and strong. How they look is a result of the type of training done.

In my opinion in picture 1, she appears to be engaging her fast twitch muscles a lot more than in picture two. It appears there is a lot of lifting heavy weights and hard HIIT involved. Picture 2 is more pilates-style kind of training, slow twitch use of muscles while training.

Picture 1 focuses more on strength while picture 2 focuses more on endurance hence the disparity in the final physique look.

By tailoring your workouts to use the right type of muscle fibers, you can ensure you're working toward the results you want.

Hopefully, you learnt something today. I sure did.

Wanja.

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