I'm going to share with you some of my female muscle bodybuilding tactics. This is a very tough sport for both men and women. Muscle building is very hard on the body and can somewhat be unnatural. Even though men have more testosterone, that doesn't mean us women are at a disadvantage. From my experience, I've found that we function under the same biological rules and we can both use them to our advantage to put on muscle. I'll share a little of what I've learned to help you achieve success in this sport.

The first important point to understand is that your muscles only grow to the potential in which your diet allows. For the longest time, I thought the gym is where muscles were made. The truth is that your diet is what makes them and if your diet is bad, than your muscle growth is bad. I was experiencing a long period of a plateau early in my career at this. When I actually sat down and spent more time on planning out my diet than I was spending at the gym, my results started to explode. I was putting on more muscle than I ever did before.

As for the gym, I think most people don't focus on the exercises that give the most results. Barbell curls and calve raises aren't going to make you big. Compound exercises stimulate more muscle growth than any other exercises out there. The two best are deadlifts and squats. If you added these to your routine, your results would be amazing.