| What To Do When The Weight Loss Stops
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By: Raymond Burton
Have you ever started a weight loss program, made great
results at the beginning and then everything fell apart?
You started a resistance training routine, you were eating
right, doing your cardio and lost on average a pound or two
a week You finally found the answer to succeeding at weight
loss, or so you thought. Now a couple of months later, the
scale refuses to budge. You were doing everything right. So
what happened?
Well, this is another case of something very simple that
can be corrected easily. Its something you may have never
put into action though if you didn't take the time to seek
out answers from someone who knows a little bit more about
weight loss and exercise then you do. Here is a big pat on
the back for having a problem and doing some research to
look for a solution.
Let's take this step by step so you understand exactly what
might have happened. First, look back and see when and
where you WERE getting results. It was at the beginning.
This is because at that time, the weights and exercise were
a challenge for you so your body had to change and adapt.
These factors are what caused your body to lose weight.
This is called S.A.I.D. to personal trainers. S.A.I.D. is
and acronym for Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands.
This basically means that when your body runs into a
physical stress that it is not used to, it will change so
that what you are doing will not be so hard to handle the
next time you run into it.
Its normal for results to slow down or stop if you are not
on a weight loss program that changes things up either in
the actual routine or the stresses that it causes to your
body. Changes in your weight loss program bring back the
intensity. Intensity is what causes further changes to your
body.
Intensity in your weight loss program can be caused by
using more weight, using the same weight but completing the
routine faster, or using the same weight but making each
repetition take longer to complete. These are just some
examples.
Often when I train females, they believe that using heavier
weights will make them get too muscular or that they will
get bigger. This belief keeps them from taking the actual
course of action that would bring them quickly to their
goals. In actual fact, because of the hormonal differences
between men and women, muscle gains do not come extremely
fast for women. What happens is that they increase their
metabolism, lose a lot of fat and tighten up the saggy
parts, leaving them with a very toned body. If at any time
the amount of body fat lost is too much, it is very easy to
cut back on the weight or drop some fat burning cardio in
order to soften up a little if that is what you are after.
This is a simple truth that has been show to work over and
over again in countless numbers of my female clients where
weight loss was the goal.
The intensity factor also applies to your cardio. You must
increase how hard you work on that every couple of weeks
also. Again, the intensity can be from doing the same
distance in less time, doing more incline on the treadmill
or simply changing the machine or activity that you like to
do. Remember that in order to lose a pound of fat a week,
you should shoot for burning off 3500 calories over a 7-day
period. 3500 calories is how many calories are in a pound
of fat. When you crunch the numbers most people are shocked
to realize that they don't burn around 500 calories a day
in exercise. This little fact is one of the many that when
changed can quickly get you back on the path to becoming
one of those weight loss success stories you always read
about.
About the Author:
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