Why You’re Exercising A Lot With Little Results
In this article we are going to be going over some of the most prominent reasons people work their butt’s off in the gym, but are not seeing much results. Initially when someone starts a work out or fat loss program they will lose a few pounds pretty quickly within the first week or two. But after that your body seems to just kind of stop seeing results. Why is this? I am going to show you the 3 primary reasons this happens and what you can do to overcome these plateaus that are so commonly faced by others like yourself.
Change Your Workouts
The reason working out enables are bodies to lose weight is because we are forcing our bodies to make an abrupt change. Eventually, after we do an exercise for about 2-4 weeks our body starts to adapt, making the exercise easier for our body through adaption. This just means that we need to be changing our workout routines every two weeks to a month. If you come to the gym every day and do 3 sets of 10 on all of your exercises, start doing 3 sets of 15. This forces our body to once again change and produce results. If you have been doing the same exercises for too long its time to change your routine!
Improve Meal Consistency
You may be busting your tail off in the gym, but the fact that your only eating 3 meals a day if that, is certainly a huge hinder on your results. It is optimal for our metabolism to be consuming a small meal every 2-3 hours through out the day. Every time we consume food our bodies metabolism is forced to work hard to process that food. If we are able to eat smaller, healthy proportions our metabolism will be able to burn more calories and process food much easier.
Work Out Duration
Work out duration is huge, every day we see people come in to the gym at 9 and not leave til 11. Your incline to think ya, workout longer and burn more calories. Well, I’m here to tell you working out over 60 minutes can actually be hurting your progress more than helping it. Once you go over the hour mark your body starts releasing a hormone called Cortisol which is considered a stress hormone. Once this happens your body begins preserving fat cells and eating lean muscle tissue as its main energy source.
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