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"Will I Get Big Doing This?"

Friday, February 18, 2011

"Don't eat carbs after 3pm"
"Muscle weighs more than fat"
"Stay in your target heart zone for maximal fat loss"
"Dietary fat will make you fat"
"Losing more than 1-2 pounds of fat a week is unhealthy"
"Oprah is not gay"

What do all of these things have in common? They are myths, untruths, misinformation and basically just flat out wrong (actually the Oprah one could go either way...) As a professional trainer with over 3 decades  of experience (damn I'm getting old!), these are still things that I still hear in our industry everyday...sometimes even out of the mouths of other trainers!

Another one I still get quite often is from women who are inquiring about my program and are worried that lifting heavy weights will make them big and bulky. On the outside it seems to make sense, as that is how men have traditionally built big muscles, but except in rare cases (see photo below) most women can't build big muscles.

Testosterone is the key player responsible for building the bulk, and ladies, you don't really have enough flowing through you to make this something that you need to worry about.

Rest assured, when you see female bodybuilders, they got that way for a few reasons.
1. They're usually very short, so building comes easier.
2. They're eating more food a day than me (over 5000 calories)
3. They're taking steroids
4. They're actually trying to get big.

Here me now and believe me later, you are not going to wake up one morning the day after a tough workout having used heavy weights and all of a sudden find yourself in possesion of a set of 18 inch pythons (arms) and Hulk Hogan sized thighs...it doesn;t work that way.

That's the beautiful thing about CrossFit, it's designed to make you a bad-ass athlete, not a bodybuilder. And though we train for health, performance and athleticism, if you stay the course with your nutrition while training this way, you will get a lean, strong, sexy body...I guarantee it!

WOD
PAPA JOHN
For Time:
3 Rounds of...
20 Horizontal Pullups
20 Dips
20 KB Swings 32kg / 20 kg
Then...
1000M Row
100 Hands Off Pushups
Warmup
150 Sledge

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