Designing workout routines for women really depends on their goals. If your goal is to lose fat and improve your physical appearance, then you need a workout routine designed for that. Notice I said lose fat and not lose weight, there is an important difference and that brings us to our first point. Workout routines for women that are effective at fat loss include a weight training component. This is probably the most important yet most overlooked aspect of weight loss programs and I will explain why later. Secondly you need to do some fat burning exercise, now I am not talking about the traditional time consuming cardio that has been shown to be ineffective at fat burning. I am talking about time efficient cardio that is super successful at burning fat.
The reason weight training is a vital component in losing fat is two-fold. The first aspect is that it's all about building muscle mass. Muscle tissue is metabolically active, which means it needs energy to stay alive. Food gives you calories, and that's energy that your muscles can use. So, no matter what you're doing each day, your muscles automatically burn fat. This means that if you've got more muscle mass, you'll see a higher rate of metabolism, and that means you'll be using the calories you take in each day. So, building and maintaining muscle mass is a way to burn calories by doing nothing.
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