#badworkout

1) WORKING OUT TOO HARD TOO OFTEN

We all have an appropriate intensity to which we should be working out to. If you are in the military and training your mental strength your Intensity would be far different to that of someone who wants to workout just for health. 

Most of us fall into the latter group. We workout for health and to look good. Pushing too hard too often leads to stressing the body too much and will result in overtraining. This is where your results stop and can even begin to go backwards.

When exercising with weights stopping 2 reps short of not being able to do another rep with good form is what we need. You dont need to annihilate your body everyday to get fast results. In fact if you make sure that recover between sessions and not push too hard in sessions results will come faster.

2) WORKING OUT TOO LITTLE

Eventhough we just mentioned pushing too hard to can go too far to the other extreme also, and not do enough. We can all agree that eating 1 good meal wont make us healthy nor will exercising just one time per week. 

To see results aim to workout 3 times per week with weights and 3 times cardio for heart health.

3) STARVING YOURSELF FOR FAT LOSS

Not eating enough while pushing your body is a quick way to stall your progress! Even if your goal is to lose fat you still have to eat to recover your body so it can rebuild muscles and be in a healthy place so that your body is happy to lose the fat. 

You will have to play around with this but if you are eating very low calories (1600 or less)  add calories in to where you are not losing weight anymore, this is your maintenance calories, then reduce those calories by 300-500 . There will be some individual variance with this however.

4) NOT TRACKING FOOD

If you dont track your calories you have no idea how much you are eating. Current research even points out that most people who are left to thier own devices underestimate how much they eat on a day to day basis. Eating all those 'extra' calories won't get you to the weight you want.

Download myfitnesspal or mynetdiary app to track food and monitor your calories. 

5) NOT DOING CERTAIN EXERCISES 

Most ladies shy away from weight training and just stick to doing cardio. This could eventually lead to a point where results stop and you dont know why. 

The body adapts quickly and too much cardio exercise will slow down your metabolism which ends up in results slowing waaay down. Using weights to exercise and focusing on getting stronger had alot more variables that you can manipulate to keep on getting results year after year.

6) UNCLEAR INTENTIONS

Its easy to walk into the gym and switch into autopilot mode. This can lead to doing the same thing over and over and not really moving towards your goals 

Before exercising set a clear intention and ask yourself why are you there today? Is it to get stronger? To work on your deadlift technique, or push an extra 5 mins on the bike? 

Whatever it is set clear goals, clear intentions and stay focused.