Do most female athletes follow some weight lifting program to look so fit and toned? Or is it mostly cardio and diet?

[ilovebenching]

So I was just checking out some of the best female volleyball players, they look so lean and athletic. I have a few overweight female friends who ask me for advice but i don't know if i should recommend bodybuilding programs, or circuit training, or just cardio and dieting. Will lifting weights cause muscular bodies on women or is that for the genetic elite etc?

 

[Thrawn]

What do you consider muscular?

 

[Yano]

Amanda Lawrence ,,, yeh yeah I'm a dirty old man she's like 28 hahaahha

84kg weight class she pulled 268.5 in Sheffield ,that's 591 lbs for the metrically challenged on top of that she got a hind end like a thoroughbred race horse my God in Heaven !!!

 

[MarekBocanek]

Volleyball players are just skinny with slight muscles. Girls that do powerlifting (2 of them going to the gym where I do) look significantly more muscular (bit tinier, but close to the one that Yano sent).
As for volleyball, as there's a team here, they just run and train standardly, mostly cardio and technique for ball accuracy.