Aesthetically speaking, the effects of increasing your muscle mass will be easiest to see once you have reduced your body fat percentage. You may have heard the expression “abs are made in the kitchen”, if you have a thick layer of fat over your muscles, you can work out really hard but still find them hard to see. Try not to be discouraged, your muscles are there and they are growing but you will find it hard to see them till you reduce your body fat. They will actually grow

Increasing your lean body mass, or your muscle mass, will not necessarily make you larger or look like you have “bulked up”. What you are ultimately aiming for is to decrease your body fat percentage and increase your muscle mass. The term “toned” is thrown around a lot, to be toned is a bit of a vague concept, but if what you require is less wobbly bits, altering your body composition as described above is what you need to do. Online you can find before and after photos of p

When we first start training together, many of my female clients are nervous about the prospect of increasing their strength and muscles mass. I can explain to them how important it is to be strong and tell them about the areas of their bodies which are lacking strength but they remain wary of getting “bigger” instead of “smaller”. This in itself is a whole other topic, why women want to be smaller and men want to be bigger… What many women don’t realize is that we just don’t