MYTH: Many women believe weight resistance training will make their muscles large and bulky.
FACT: The ability to increase total muscle mass is highly dependent upon circulating levels of testosterone.
• Men have between 20 and 30 times the testosterone level of women and, as a result, tend to build more lean body mass. However, genetics and individual differences can play a role at the rate in which muscle mass increases.
• Women lack the proper hormones to increase muscle to be as large and bulky as men.
• Furthermore, women, as compared to men, have thinner muscle strands.