Increasing your muscular fitness is as important to your overall health just as building your faith is important to your overall spirituality.  The two have more in common than you realize. 

At birth, male or female, we were all given the same muscles.  What makes the difference in our muscular strength is how much we exercise them.  Muscular strength increases are not gender specific.  Women can have the same percentages of strength increases as men.  While women may not be able to lift as heavy a weight as men, they can have just as much benefit from strength training.   Same goes with faith, when were born again God gave us all a measure of faith.  What makes our faith grow is spiritual exercise.  And again it isn’t gender specific.   

Hebrews 11 is dedicated to those considered to have great faith.  Among them you will find women of great faith like Sarah, Moses’s mother, and Rahab.  Others come to mind like Ruth, Esther, and Mary.  Everyone has muscle and everyone has faith.  How strong they get depends on how much you exercise them.

You increase your strength and your faith the same way, through the principle of overload. The principle of overload states that will you increase your muscular strength by lifting weights that are heavier than your muscles are accustomed.  By doing this your muscles will adapt and become stronger.  God increases your faith in a similar fashion.    

To increase your spiritual fitness he allows you to endure trials. James 1:1-4 tells us to“Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.  Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.This kind of spiritual training strengthens your faith.

Increase your muscular strength by strength training 2-3 days a week, performing 2-3 sets of 12-15 repetitions of 8-10 exercises.   Increase your spiritual fitness by reading your Bible and praying daily.