https://mennohenselmans.com/natural-muscular-potential-women/
^There's the article.
I recommend reading the whole article, because it's awesome, but here are some specific bullet points I want to share with you all:
He also mentions that some of his natural female clients sometimes grew too much muscle for a bikini competition and he had to work with them to slim them down, which I thought was funny.
^There's the article.
I recommend reading the whole article, because it's awesome, but here are some specific bullet points I want to share with you all:
- Women build just as much muscle protein after training and after meals as men. In fact, one study found that given the same level of muscle mass, women have a higher rate of muscle protein synthesis than men.
- Elite, natural female athletes have 85% as much muscle as elite male athletes.
- People have lower expectations of women, even most women themselves underestimate what they can achieve physically compared to men. In a famous study, simply telling people they were on steroids increased their strength gains by 321%.
- So what do you think it does to women when you tell them they have 15 times less testosterone?
- Growth factors like IGF-1 and growth hormone take over the anabolic role that testosterone has in men (so our lower testosterone is not as much of a disadvantage many people think it is).
- Women are underrepresented in sports and in the gym.
- We don’t have the same expectations of women. If a man benches a lot, that’s taken as a sign of social dominance. If a woman benches a lot, she’s seen as a freak, people get worried
He also mentions that some of his natural female clients sometimes grew too much muscle for a bikini competition and he had to work with them to slim them down, which I thought was funny.