For the beginner girlies out there, lifting weights DOES NOT make you look buff and bulky. It makes you look fucking attractive.

The best examples of female body types you can get by being extremely active (and likely from lifting weights) can be taken from many athletes from the Physical Netflix show attached in the post (granted we do not know who is fully natural or not). Some examples of this: Nonoka Ozaki, Jang Eun Sil, Alexandra Milne and Choi Seung Yeon - athletes and personalities that have such extremely trained bodies. These are physiques that are **already very hard to achieve.** And in my opinion these bodies are already at the extremity. Most female gym goers do not look like this.

First, women have naturally higher body fat and testosterone than men - which substantially limits the muscle building potential and increases the leanness required to look cut.

Muscle growth requires sustained progressive overload, sufficient caloric intake, enough protein, and long-term consistency. Even then, hypertrophy in trained women occurs slowly and within biological limits.

So the question is: why does the “bulking” fear persist? What makes people, esp women, think going to the gym will make them accidentally look like prime Arnold Schwarzenegger? 

What women think will happen to their bodies when they start lifting weights