Don't get married to one particular mode of training or allow clients to equate adding size with weights. A sound progressive program should incorporate multiple modes of resistance. I train everyone from kids and rehab clients to athletes and bodybuilders, and I stress the utilization of different training methods in order to ensure constant physical response to training. I always start with body weight movements and transition to bands, fixed machine resistance (to facilitate proper form without worrying about balance and control), free motion machines (which allow for the introduction of balance forces, with the safety of the machine), and then free weights.
It is important even for those that are not looking to add size, to use free weights in order to develop balance as well as strength. Keep in mind that strength required for real world situations often require balance and control as well. After all, unless an individual is an athlete, our goal is to enable a client to prefer better in ordinary life situations. Right?!
I would also recommend that you stress to female clients that bulk has more to do with diet, lifting extremely heavy weight (20lbs won't make you look like Ronnie Coleman), and hormones. So, the next time a client frets about lifting............10 whole pounds, remind them that lifting a bag of groceries while carrying a one year old (and sometimes talking on the cell phone...lol) is a lot heavier than 10lbs. I remind female clients just how strong they are, even if they don't know it!
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