Are you frustrated because you’re trying your hardest at the gym with NO results?
It could be that your lack of progress is a result of the three totally common mistakes listed below. It’s time to hurry up and check yourself before you keep wrecking yourself.
Here are three mistakes that you may be making in your exercise routine that you can turn around today.
1. Your workouts lack variety. The most important factor in making progress is mixing it up. Doing the same thing every day will be the death of all your hard work. So if you love to run, change it up between running for distance and running for time. If you love cardio, mix it up with a hip hop class or the rowing machine. If strength training is your thing, make sure you’re adding weight to familiar moves, alternating machines if you are at the gym, or training your front body one day and your back body the next. The more variety, the better results you’ll see.
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2. You’re binging and indulging in “cheat” foods that don’t serve your goals, and then working out to burn off the calories. Or you’re working out like a beast and rewarding your efforts with junk. Your purpose for working out should be to keep your body healthy and your mind happy, not to work off calories from a binge. It’s okay to indulge once in a while in your favorite food, but don’t think that you need to “get rid of it” immediately – that’s a sign of disordered eating. On the flip side, research shows that people tend to reward themselves with rich foods and large portions after exercising because they believe they’ve burned off hundreds of calories. The problem is that they often eat all – if not more – than the calories they just burned. We all have favorite foods we like to eat, but don’t make it a reward for exercising. You’re not a dog.
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3. Your workouts aren’t intense enough to make a change. If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you. We’ve all seen it (or can even admit to having done it) – phoning it in at the gym, reading a magazine on the elliptical machine, or posing for selfies in between bicep curls. If you’re focusing on something else, you’re probably not working as hard as you could be. Breaking through plateaus requires focusing on intensity and paying attention. A great way to make your workouts more intense is to have a specific goal to work toward. Keep track of your performance, and increase reps/time/intensity with every week. Just like with anything in life, when you focus on a goal, you’ll work more efficiently and see better results.
Also check out 3 Healthy Eating Mistakes You’re Making and 3 Meditation Mistakes You’re Making to create beautiful, sustainable practices for mind and body – inside and out!
Stay blissed,
Rebekah “Bex” Borucki, founder of BexLife.com and the Blissed In® wellness movement, is a mother-of-five, TV host, meditation guide, author, speaker, birth doula, fitness and yoga instructor, and popular social media personality. Her first book, You Have 4 Minutes to Change Your Life (Hay House 2017), is available now, wherever books are sold.
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