When it comes to fitness, some women jump right into it while others tend to be skeptical. And it’s not just due to laziness or lack of time. Sometimes what we hear through the grapevine about female fitness routines can be enough to intimidate us into not wanting to even head near a gym. Find out what’s real and what’s false once and for all.

Probably one of the biggest female fitness myths is the belief that weight training and exercise will increase or decrease your bust size. What a regular workout routine can do is decrease your bust size - this is especially true if you manage to get your chest to below 12% body fat through weight training. There is no way that you can boost your cup size by exercising like a maniac or doing a lot of weight training, however, specific exercises can help create the illusion of a fuller bust by strengthening the pectoral muscles underneath the breasts. But in a nutshell, it is impossible to increase bust size through a workout routine.

Another common myth is that a regular fitness routine will either turn fat into muscle or that if you stop exercising, your muscle will turn into fat. In both respects, muscle and fat are two totally different types of tissue. One cannot be turned into another so this belief is not accurate at all. While it is true that going back to bad eating habits and a prolonged period of no exercise can cause you to lose your muscle, what actually happens during this time is that your metabolism becomes slower and your muscle mass decreases, which gives off the appearance of your muscles turning into fat. But that’s not the case at all, no matter how it may look. As for turning fat into muscle, again the two have nothing to do with each other. We are able to lose fat through weight training, a good diet and aerobics. This part of your workout routine has no relation to the muscle that you could possibly build up through weight and strength training.

Perhaps the biggest fear may women hoping to start an exercise regimen have is the idea that they will become bulky with muscles and look less feminine. This is actually another common myth that is untrue. So what about those scary bodybuilding women you see on television? In those cases, the majority of them use anabolic steroids in addition to their rigorous workout, which helps to increase their bulk and muscle mass faster through the use of high levels of testosterone. What does that mean for you? Unless you are one of those anabolic steroid users, the chances of you becoming a hulking mass of unfeminine muscle are extremely rare. No amount of exercise in the world could cause you to look any less feminine - maybe a little more toned and with better muscle definition - but definitely not masculine.

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