today weight training and bodybuilding have gone mainstream and are excepted as excellent means of shaping the body and keeping it in shape, in the past like the 1950's and 1960's coaches would warn that bodybuilding will make you "muscle-bound" and did not doing anythign for cardiovascular fitness.
lifting weights old coaches would say will make you slow, stiff and unathletic, they also warned that it could damage the heart.
today though we know that was utter nonsense, because proper weight training makes you stronger, leaner, more flexible, more athletic and even increase cardiovascular ability, if performed quickly, with little rest between sets, still many people especially women who fear developing huge muscles shy away from weight training.
they perform endless aerobics that do little to build muscle or shape the body, just jumping up and down and waving your arms around is not going to give you a shapely body, sure your raising your heart rate and getting fitter, and burning a few calories, but building muscle, no, and without muscle you cannot shape your body, even jane fonda finally admitted that using small hand and ankle weights made aerobic activity much more effective.
if women workout they are not going to end up looking like a bodybuilder,
because it is other things as well as working out that cause that extreme look, but if women want to build some muscle size and shape then some weight lifting, and cardio is the right way to try and make these things happen.
and just try to get a athletic weight training look to a women body
