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Hello and welcome to Big Fish Extra Catch with me, Spencer Matthews.

And me, Sean Stafford.

Oh, yeah, baby.

And today we are going to be talking about women's strength training.

Yeah.

Why don't you tell us for a start, like, why is it beneficial for women to lift weights?

There's lots and lots and lots of benefits for everybody to do some form of strength training or resistance

training or lifting weights as we like to call it. But I think for women particularly, the thing is

a lot of it is intimidation for them. They don't want to lift weights because potentially they

don't know how good and beneficial

it is for you. So if we're looking through like a real short checklist of why particularly women

should strength train or resistance train, there's going to be increased muscle, which from a

sort of metabolic point of view allows them to manage their weight better.

But hang on a sec.

Is that not kind of one of the barriers to entry for women who don't want to lift weights

because they feel that they will get more musly and bigger?

The funniest thing whenever I talk to a woman or females talking about

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