Ladies, Kick Start Your Engines and…Show Me Your Muscles!!

I remember when Sara was like 10 and I used to ask her “show me your muscles Sara” and she would HATE it!  She would cry and call me “Mean”.  I would feel so bad because I just made my BEST friend in the whole wide world cry.  You and I both know I am not “Mean” but I really wanted to see her muscles, and now look at her? I knew in my gut, Sara was going to be famous using her muscle skills!  Like the Beastie Boys say “you’ve got the skills to pay the bills.”

Like my Best friend would challenge me to show her my muscles so I too challenge you to show me your muscles! Most often when people go into a gym to workout, the sole purpose is to lose weight and change the shape of their body.  In order to lose that weight and keep it off, the most important thing we can focus on is increasing our BMR or our Basal Metabolic Rate.  I will often hear women complaining that they think they have a slow metabolism but most often they are not fueling their metabolisms for success.  70% of our metabolism is dependent on our BMR meaning our lean muscle mass, and our cardiovascular fitness.  Metabolism is only 15% dependent on exercise and 15% dependent on digestion.  This being said, we need to work on building a bigger engine, using the muscle we have to raise our overall BMR, readily burning fat, and making our bodies calorie burning machines.  We do this by lifting weights or doing High Intensity Cardio Intervals.  Muscle is the only thing that drives metabolism.

If we want our metabolisms to be going full-throttle, then we need to be pumping the iron in the gym. This is not about making our muscles bigger, but using the muscle we have to our advantage. Why settle for a motor the size of a lawn mower when you have to ability to increase your BMR, and replace that engine with a Ferrari or Porsche size one?

So now I know, the next time my bestie says, SARAAAAAAAAAAAA ………………show me your muscles, I will proudly say, Yes Ma’am!