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FACTORS WHY WOMEN DO NOT EXERCISE AS MUCH AS MEN?
Obesity increasing time pressures, alcohol, living alone all reduce the ability to be able for females to exercise.
We are living longer on average so the importance to keep healthy is even more important.
Improved drugs for diseases are extending our lives. Exercise helps us have a better quality of life with the chance for greater longevity.
Women are far more educated about their bodies and what exercise is required.
Increased use of the motor car results in less walking from A to B.
50 years ago rising affluence could be seen by increasing waistlines. Now the poor eat fast food (often high in fat) and as a result are becoming clinically
Obese.
The positives of exercise
Information can also be a limiting factor as women tend to think that they will grow huge muscles by weight and resistance training. Think about how many men who hit the gym really have big muscles not many.
Women do not have the muscle building growth hormones that will increase muscle mass. Men have over 20 times more growth hormone than women. So you need not worry about having bigger arms than men you know.
Did you know that if you increased your muscle by just 2.2 pounds (1 kilo) you will burn up 35-50 more calories per day or lose 5 pounds (2.2 kilos) a year!
Strength training increases bone mass reduces the chance of fractures of the spine hips and wrists. Women who exercised when you and walked in later life reduced the chances injury.
Limiting factors
Breaking the habit of continuing exercise when you leave school to start work is another factor. If you exercise after leaving school for 12 months you are more likely to continue throughout your life.
Expecting overnight changes in your body shape or size is likely to lead to stopping before you have started a routine.
Stress and mental illness prevent women from doing exercise.
Exercise can reduce stress levels.
Size zero is perfect image prevents women from taking the first steps to join a gym.
Do not just focused on appearance and worry about what others are thinking.
You will soon have more energy; remember it’s your “Own Time” work on your own personnel gains in improvement and technique.
Time pressures form commuting and long working hours make it difficult to find the time.
Safe training environment also is a problem.
Career women find it almost impossible to exercise during the week and are too tired at weekends.
If leisure centres were cheaper and cleaner women would use them more.
Rigid hours has it limitations but can allow you to plan in exercise, remember we are talking about your health and without health you have no wealth.
In the UK 16-25 year old women exercise half as much as men.
Women and girls make up 52% of the UK population
When you consider that men do not exercise enough this is not good comparison.
Increase your chances for exercise. What to do?
Find a training partner of similar ability especially in the winter when it is dark outside.
If this is not possible try and run or swim a few lunchtimes a week.
Join a gym and train on set days.
Always train at weekends that over 100 sessions a year!
Women that have dependant children need to walk jog cycle with them or find a gym that has a crèche.
Women without children need a training buddy to work out with.
Power walking helps and should not be underestimated especially for mothers who have children with buggies.
It s not easy but does require real commitment.
Feeling better mentally and physically is just the tip of the ice berg why exercise is so important.
If women realised that by continuing exercise during their teens and 20’s they would be far more likely to be slimmer during menopause and later life then they would exercise more.
The family also needs to encourage females to exercise as a way of life.
Try not to be competitive.
You are the only one you need to exercise. Little and often is the key to long life fitness. Build up slowly. Always warm up and warm down do not go straight into any form of exercise.
When running have three distinct paces building up main pace and warming down.