YOUR
NEW FITNESS PROGRAM STARTED WITH A BANG.
Then
what happened?
You’re new to fitness but you
finally made the commitment and started off gangbusters. The first 3 weeks you
added 3 pounds of muscle and added 10% to all your lifts. Or you lost an easy
5-10 pounds of fat.
Now you’re amped up. “Hey, that
wasn’t so hard. I should be able to meet my goals in half the time my trainer
told me.”
Then, the next 3
weeks-nothing. You step on the scales every single day. You pick the scales up
and shake them. You jump up and down on them. Still they won’t move.
“My trainer is a jerk. He
lied to me.” Motivation goes down. Focus goes down. And a lot of people quit.
Usually they quit or start looking for some new miracle program just before the
gains start again.
Nature is what happened. The
same Adaptive
Response mechanism that enables you to build muscle or increase
strength works in reverse too. Eat fewer calories than you burn and the body
adapts to slow your metabolism to meet the caloric intake.
See A Gift from the Caveman is in Your Inbox
See A Gift from the Caveman is in Your Inbox
The thing to keep in mind is
that all physical improvements come in spurts. None of these improvements are
linear. You’ll have a spurt of gains or (weight loss) then little or no
progress at all, then suddenly, another spurt.
When progress stalls, just
keep working. Give it a chance.
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