19-04-2004, 08:59 AM
My wife used to be a personal trainer which always helps. The biggest mistakes a lot of women in the UK make, is to avoid the weights section and go straight for the running or cycling machines. Their main concern is that they don't want to become muscular, but for a woman to become really muscular through weight training, she would have to be on steroids. Most women simply become "toned" through weights and what most people forget is that you burn so much fat from weight training. I guess at the end of the day it has to be a balanced approach with weights and cardio.