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5 Potential Reasons Why You Aren’t Feeling the Results From Your Strength Workouts.
Even when we know something is “good” for us, it can be hard to stay consistent when we aren’t feeling the progress. Here’s 5 possible reasons why you are not progressing with your strength training workouts.
Better Goals for Better Results
As we head into the new year, we’re going to be inspired to declare resolutions or goals or aspirations for ourselves and our lives - which is amazing - inspiration to create goals for ourselves based on reflection of previous outcomes and current emotions is the first step to making change.
But many people don’t move from this initial phase of change making and accomplish their goals because they either fail to make a plan and take consistent action or they try to do all the things all at once, which is most often not an effective route to sustainable and long term success.
Pick a Lane
This bobbing and weaving actually creates more slow downs, but in our minds, we’re in control! We’re moving! We’re making the choices here! So instead of staying the course, we seek the next flashy opening and slide on into the new slot that we think is going to move us along faster. This happens in the fitness and nutrition industry all the time too. We think we are supposed to see and feel results RIGHT NOW because of the marketing of “14 day challenges” and other diet nonsense about “fast physique changes” we absorb almost everywhere we go.
Just Listen to Your Body
Ever been told to "just listen to your body?”
Sounds simple enough, but what does that actually mean? What are you supposed to be listening for?
Just like with nutrition, years of diet marketing teaching us to NOT tune in and listen to our bodies leads to us actually having difficulty with this. ….
Trust the Process
When we have a goal and we seem to be progressing “too slow” we can become impatient - but this is when it is most important to trust the process!