I am often approached by gym users telling me they have been training for 9 months but have made little or no progress in the last 6 months and are ready to walk away from the gym, "what am I doing wrong?"
My response is "what have you been doing for the last 9 months?"
I will get a list of exercises and an outline of this persons diet.
my next question "what have you changed in the last 9 months?"
"Nothing-it worked for the first 3 months"
Is this you? Have you fallen into this trap?
Taking this very scenario, if you have not previously exercised, any exercise program is going to have an effect on you, however there will be a point at which your body is no longer challenged by this exercise program.
As you are no longer challenged by this program, your body has no requirement to change in order to overcome it.
Time to set yourself some new challenges, do 5mins more on the treadmill, increase your RPM on the bike, add 5kg onto the bar, do an extra 5 reps-whatever it takes to challenge the body again.
Once you complete this new challenge, raise the levels again as soon as possible and never get trapped at the same level again.
The same can be applied to diet, if you are no longer losing fat/weight drop another 200-300 kcal from your daily intake for the next 3-4weeks and changes should begin to occur again.
Keep challenging yourself, keep progressing,
Darren.
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