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Ernestine Shepherd – 74-Year Old Fitness Legend Doing Push Ups

Okay, you just turned 40, and you are freaking out how certain body parts are getting out of shape.  There could be many areas of improvement, but one that gives many women cause for discontent is how their underarm muscles become flabby, gently waving back and forth whenever they point their arms outward.  This is the  area on the underside of the upper arm, opposite the biceps muscles which is called the triceps.  Though jogging may be great to lose weight overall, it does absolutely nothing to shape and sculpt other parts of the body.  This is why progressive weight resistance with the regular use of barbells and dumbbells is so important for women.  But let us look at just this one problem area for some – the underarm triceps muscles that have grown saggy and weak.

Push Ups to the Rescue

One of the best and basic exercises that is accessible, inexpensive and has been around forever is the floor push up.  The beauty of this exercise is that when you combine it with aerobic activity such as jogging or cycling, you can develop a  very firm and sculpted body.

The Benefits of the Push Up

Benefit Number 1 –Push Ups Are an A-1 Chest (Pectoral Muscle) Developer – Perky breasts?  Why not.  The muscles (pectorals) under the soft female breast tissue lift and give them their proud, pouty, perky look.

Benefit Number 2 – Push Ups Develop The Shoulder (Frontal Deltoid) Muscles – Throw away those foam shoulder pads that come with the stylish dresses that give your shoulders that broad sexy look and let the beauty and grace of your own shoulders frame your body.

Benefit Number 3 – Push Ups Develop and Make Firm the Triceps Muscle – What caused me to write this article in the first place was the fact that the push up is the cure to the under the arm muscle flab that has grown flaccid from lack of exercise.

How To Do Push Ups

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Aside from learning the specific push up technique of getting on the floor with your hands flat shoulder-width apart, holding your torso perfectly straight, and lowering  your chest barely to the floor and then pushing yourself up, the overall idea is to start slow – at your own pace and strength level.  If you can only do one or two push ups to start, that’s okay.  Heck!  If you can only do one or two half push ups, that’s okay too.  Do them every other day, and try to add one more every few days or so or as soon as you can comfortably do more.  Once you can do 12 non-stop push ups in good form,  make it your goal to be able to rest a minute after doing 12 repetitions – and then do another set of 12 reps.  Rest finally, for another minute after that second set, and then do a final set of 12 repetitions.  At the stage of being able to do 3 sets of 12 reps …well…just look at yourself in the mirror.  You will smile with satisfaction, and you will be glad to have accomplished what you have. 

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I was doing a search online on “female bodybuilding and steroid use” – and I saw some pictures of “women” so massively muscular and striated, and with so many male features that I could only say “Holy smokes!” (Actually, it was a little stronger than “holy smokes”. I just don’t want to put it here in this article. But the second word after “holy” started with an “s” – and, it certainly wasn’t “smokes”.)

What I Saw In Those Pictures of Extreme Female Bodybuilders

Not only was the musculature of these women huge and totally “macho-male”, their facial features were totally altered as well: jutting “cave man-like” jaw bones, big bulging eyes, excessive wrinkles in the corner of the mouth, and an obvious “rawhide-like” male texture of skin.

What Are Other Physiological Changes in the Female Anatomy of Steroid-Induced Male Musculature

1. Their Voices Deepen – As much as they might want to mask it, the vocal cords change from melodious to baritone.

2. They Become Hirsute – They develop more body hair; facial, chest and back hair become more noticeable.

3. They Lose Their Female Body Odor – They lose that “soft sweet scent of a woman” and their skin begins to exude a characteristically musky male smell.

4. They Develop A Condition Called Clitoromegaly – This is the abnormal enlargement of the female clitoris – which, anatomically speaking in the embryonic stage,  is seen as the analog to the male penis. In the case of steroid-induced male development, an otherwise normal female body can develop a clitoris the size of a thumb. (Surprise! Surprise! How scary is that! – or maybe not!)

5. Moodiness and Violent and/or Aggressive Behavior Is Common – These women suffer from what is commonly called “roid rages” which is one of the symptoms of excessive steroid use

6. Extreme Female Bodybuilders on Steroids Give Up Their Maternal Rights – What I mean by this is that their menstration stops due to their extremely low body fat percentage, and in short they become sterile in this condition.

Now we come to the question and the point of this whole article. What is it that drives, leads or encourages a woman to take this path? This is my take on it.

What I Think Happens In The Minds of Female Bodybuilders on Steroids:

1. They Lose Touch With Reality – If you are surrounded by rhinoceroses, (a metaphor for whatever your peer group happens to be), you will feel that looking like a rhinoceros is normal.

2. They Get A Sense and Surge of Power of Believing to Be Equal to or Better Than A Male Physically – The idea of this superiority can be (mentally) intoxicating. Hey, look, the average testosterone-laden, anabolic steroid-induced female bodybuilder can easily bench press 250 lbs. – some can do more. Can you?

3. They Get An Extreme Feeling of Importance Through Misinterpreted Attention – Heads turn as they walk down the street – from both men and women. “Wow! Look at all of this attention I’m getting!” they think. “I must be important!” Well, if a person walks down the street with two heads, they’ll get a lot of attention too – but I’m not sure that it is the kind of attention that you really want.

4. An Extremely Male Muscular Body (On A Female Frame) Can Get You Great Publicity – Extreme female bodybuilders can find themselves on stage, on TV spots and even in odd 5-second movie roles. This pseudo-celebrity is very exciting and can be psychologically addicting, especially if there is some monetary compensation attached to it that will help to continue and support their “careers” and chosen lifestyle.

Let Me Make Something Very Clear – (This Is My Point)

I am all for anyone selecting and following any path that they choose. And personally, I don’t really care if extreme female bodybuilders use steroids, become “men” and want to continue the promotion and proliferation of their subculture. I feel that they have that right in a free society, and I would be of the first to fight for their right to continue if anyone tried to stop them. I only find it odd that extreme female bodybuilders have a hard time accepting that more than 90% of the people outside of their norm find them unfeminine and very unattractive.  Let me ask you this.  How many young girls do you think look at photos of massively muscular female bodybuilders, jump up and down and say, “Mommy, mommy, I want to look like that when I grow up!”

Leave me your comments.

Sincerely,

Charles Prosper

“The 12-Week Fitness Guru”

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Here she is, the one, the only, the beautiful and youthful, Ernestine Shepherd winning the Guinness World Record Award on March 18, 2010 in Rome, Italy.  If you can watch this woman pose, and not be amazed then I suggest that you check you pulse.

Please leave us your comments.  There will be more of Ernestine in future blog posts.

A lot of times, I suggest to women that the only way that they can truly turn back the hands of time and enjoy, strength, youth and true shapely feminine beauty is through incorporating progressive weight resistance using barbells and dumbbells. Occasionally, I get the reaction and the reply that they don’t want to become massively muscular and huge as they have seen some women in the magazines that sport what I can only term as “hard core” extreme female body building. Here is the myth that I want to examine and bust once and for all:

” A Woman Will Always Get Huge and Muscular Like a Man When She Begins Lifting Weights”

First of all let me be clear that the type of muscular female body that I am referring to here is the one that has the jaw-dropping, extremely massive musculature of a male body more than a female body, that is, huge and bulging muscles popping out all over the place.

Why Women Believe This – Women believe this because they do not understand that extreme female body builders almost always without exception use massive doses of male steroids that completely alter their female physiology.

The Danger In Believing This – By avoiding body building, you as a woman will tend to avoid one of the most youth-enhancing, body sculpting type of exercises for the female that are available which happens to be progressive weight resistance using barbells and dumbbells.

Why This Myth Is Not True – There is only one way to exercise with weights and look like a man, and that is if you take massive doses of male steroids. Are you likely to do this? I didn’t think so. So, you have absolutely nothing to worry about. As a normal female, your body just does not produce enough male hormones to look like a man. Trust me. You have predominantly female hormones which guarantees that you will always look feminine yet strong and sexy.

What Is True:

1. Jogging or just aerobics is not enough to sculpt your body into the curvaceous siren that you would like to be. The fastest way to get there is through weight training the entire body.

2. Muscles are those things that give you your curves, and the idea is to develop those curves through weight training. Look, if you are pear shaped and are overweight, and if you just do aerobics to lose weight, you will only become a smaller shaped pear. If you want those curves, you must weight train.

3. Bones and joints become stronger, and as a woman through using weights, you can say goodbye to the fear of osteoporosis (brittle bones).

4. Fat burns off of your body faster when you do weight training. Almost nothing can accelerate the fat-burning metabolism faster or better than body building.

Now that you know this, you are above the who still believe this myth.

Myth: A woman will always get huge and muscular like a man when she begins lifting weights.

Outcome: Myth busted.

And to help you get started creating your perfect body in as little as 12 weeks, you are invited to claim your FREE Instant Access to receive a FREE 10-minute Audio Interview with the 4-page pdf transcript on “How To Get Fit Fast At Any Age” as well as a Free weekly online fitness training and nutrition eCourse when you visit:

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You will receive powerful secrets how to, in as little as 12 weeks, develop strong lean muscle and take off pounds of body fat and keep it off for good!

Click on the above link. Get your bonuses now. You’ll be glad you did.

From Charles Prosper – The 12-Week Fitness Guru