Women's Fitness: Women's Fitness Q & A With Hugo Rivera

Women's Fitness and Body Sculpting for Women

Introduction

The interview below was performed by Randy Featherston of KBJS 90.3 FM in Jacksonville, TX when I appeared on his morning show and talked about women's fitness topics. Items that we covered were differences in a woman's training program, the biggest mistake that women make when they decide to lose weight, diet programs and the importance of supplementation. Because I figured that the content of this interview would be most helpful to my women readers, I decided to summarize the interview and create a transcript of the most important items that were discussed.

Interview on Women's Fitness and Body Sculpting

Randy Featherston [RF]: Today we have national best selling fitness author and bodybuilding expert HugoRivera at the show discussing women's fitness. Welcome to the show Hugo.

Hugo Rivera [HR]: Thank you for having me here Randy. Always an honor to be at your great show.

[RF]: Today we are going to discuss women's fitness, in particular how can a woman get in shape and sculpt her body. How do you define Body Sculpting?

[HR]: Body Sculpting is the activity of losing body fat while gaining a moderate amount of muscle in order to re-shape your physique. Body sculpting is nothing more than bodybuilding but instead of concentrating on gaining alot of muscle, only a moderate amount is needed in order to achieve the desired goal.

By using concepts that we have learned through bodybuilding we combine weight training exercise to gain some muscle and cardiovascular exercise to burn some calories and fat. In comjunction with a balanced diet that consists of small meals thoughout the day to boost the metabolic rate and accelerate fat loss while gaining some muscle, and nutritional supplementation, the results provided by the program can re-shape any woman's physique in no time.

[RF]: Is there really any difference between a body sculpting program for women than for men? Are we not physiologically pretty similar?

[HR]: Great question Randy. We are physiologically pretty similar but women tend to store body fat in different places than men, mainly the hips, glutes and triceps (which is the back of the arms). Therefore, the routines for women should be designed to target those problem areas and tone them. In addition, caloric requirements for women are different than that of males as well.

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