Ladies, I know you’ve seen pictures of scary looking female bodybuilders who are hormone addled with big bulky arms and veins all over the place, but if you start resistance training, you will actually look smaller and more compact.

Women tell me, “I don’t want to get too big.”

Not to worry, you don’t have the hormones to put on size.

When you lose five pounds of fat and replace it with five pounds of muscle, the scale might not change but you will look firmer, curvier and healthier.

You will offset bone loss like osteoporosis, a condition characterized by weak and brittle bones, is more prevalent in women than men.

So grab a dumbbell (not your husband) and get healthy.

Repeat after me: Muscle is the organ of longevity.