The Biggest Reasons You Are Not Getting Results From Workouts
Posted by submit444 on Feb 20, 2011
When it comes to losing weight and changing your body, having a good workout plan is more difficult than you might think. There are lots of mistakes you can make which is why I am going to cover the top 3.
These are common issues so please don’t feel bad if you realize you are guilty of any of these mistakes. If you’re workouts are quite up to par then it’s easy to fix them and start seeing great results.
Become a Lean Mean Workout Machine. Lots of women hold the idea that if they workout as much as possible they will drop pounds faster too. However, this is very far from the truth because of the natural stress that gets placed on your body during workouts. It’s necessary stress, but it’s stress that your body has to recover from in order to help you drop weight, and tone up.
Without a full recovery you can run yourself down and even end up overtraining. Instead of feeling great, you feel like crud, gain weight, feel depressed and risk injury.
Always rest for one complete day each week. If your body is extremely sore on a workout day then take that as a sign it needs a bit more rest, take the day off completely or go light.
Cardio Is The Answer To Burning Fat. This is because women have been led to think that to lose fat it’s best to run or do some sort of cardio workout plan. Oh so false, in fact, the best and most efficient way to burn body fat is through a strength training workout.
There are two big downfalls to steady state cardio: slowed metabolism and breaking down of lean muscle mass. Of course this makes your fat stay on easier. Thank goodness strength training is becoming more common and more recommended for women!
Women Need Nothing More Than Colored Weights. If you walk into an aerobic room you are likely to see a wall lined with blue weights, pink weights, and even maybe some yellow ones The heaviest of them all goes up to 12 or 15 pounds. Which for a lot of women is exactly what they think they should be lifting.
Weights aren’t just for men, and women should not feel trapped into staying with the girly ones. There are not such things as women weights and men’s weights. If you think that lifting lots of light weight will tone you, while heavy ones will man you up, then let’s chat.
Toned is just a more delicate way for a woman to say she wants more muscle. The truth is that women don’t have the testosterone and the natural muscle mass that men do which is why 95% of us don’t add bulk.
To see results you have to challenge your strength and your abilities. If you lift weights for 10 reps and feel like it was nothing then nothing will happen.
And that completes the three biggest and worst mistakes that women make when working out. Look at your workout routines you have been doing, is it time for a fitness makeover?








