I speak to people in the gym on a daily basis and one of the most common things I hear is "I'm not feeling it lately" and I often see people jumping from programme to programme because they're bored. Does this sound like you? I can tell you why and what to do about it. In my experience, the number 1 reason why people get bored, or don't enjoy lifting weights for longer than a few weeks is because they AREN'T MAKING PROGRESS, or they AREN'T SEEING RESULTS. It's human nature to not want to commit to something unless we actually achieve tangible results from what we're doing. I know this because having worked with a countless number of clients throughout the last 8 years, it's very evident that a client will only stick to the plan 100% of the time once they have already seen that the plan works. So how do you get around the boredom of training or losing the will to commit? Follow my 5 points below: 1) Track your workouts. Don't just lift weights and hope to remember what you did next session. Track each set of each exercise so that you can compare your results in your next workout. You need any fancy apps or spreadsheets, just a written logbook will do. 2) Progress your weights and reps. Muscles need to be constantly exposed to new challenges in order to get stronger and grow. You will only get stronger and increase muscle size or tone by increasing your weights (even by a little amount) and/or adding 1 or 2 reps each time. 3) Train with intent. There's a big difference between just going through the motions and getting the workout done, and actually putting focus and effort into every exercise. Training with intent is preparing for a set and focusing your attention on how it should feel and how it shouldn't feel, and how to contract the muscle properly. 4) Add a variety of movements into your programme. Don't just stick to the same exercises because you don't know anything else. Add multiple exercises that train the same movements. For example, a barbell back squat, back-foot elevated split squat, reverse lunge, leg press, V-squat, and trap bar deadlift all train the same movement (Lower body push) but some are easier to get good at and some are more complex. 5) Know where you're heading You need to know the journey ahead of you, and why you're doing what you are. Your current programme isn't the end of the road because there's always something to progress onto. You need to know why you're doing certain exercises and where that's going to take you. For example, getting good at a leg press will enable you to progress to a machine-based squat (i.e V-squat), and that will enable you to progress onto a split squat, and then a dumbbell squat, and then a barbell squat, and so on.
If like many others, you're really not sure where to start, or you're stuck in a rut, enquire today and together, we can kickstart your transformation.
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