Break Your Weight Loss Plateau

How to gall Your Plateau

Today is a typical morning like any other for you. You get up, go for your workout at the gym or go for a nice run, to the front you start your day. Or maybe you go from work to the gym to jump on the treadmill for 40 minutes then home. No matter when you fit your workout in, you are to be commended you’ve stuck to it. SO why isn’t the weight last off like it did when you first started your new workout routine. Everything is the same. Cardio 3 to 5 days a week. Weight training 2 to 3 days a week. Your diet is still in tack (despite the PMS shipwreck in the sugarplum abyss). If you are still doing everything the same and you can’t seem to drop those last 10 lbs then you can’t drop those last 10 lbs as long as you are still doing everything the same. (I know I just reverse the sentence but read it just the same and you’ll slosh on if you didn’t the first time.)

Your body is a wonderfully efficient machine. Everything from your head to your toes coordinate to your environment, your activity and your lifestyle. Your exercise regimen is no different.

Here is the scenario.

Your Story...

You began the new year with a new found dedication to running. attendant all, you need to drop those extra pounds. So you go for a 45 minute run 5 days a week and weight train in the gym 2 times a week. In January and February the pounds fell off. You consistently left 2 even 4 lbs some weeks, chocking on your dust as you laughed your way all the way to the fig store. But here we are in April and the scale hasn’t moved since the nativity of March. What happened?

Your Body’s Story…

When you began your program, your body worked hard to keep up with the new intensity and duration of your exercise regimen. As a result it slashed energy (calories/fat) to keep up. Then one day as it accompanied you out the door and began picking up speed, then it said to it’s self. Oh I’ve done this plenty of times before. In fact I am good. I am so good at this now that instead of vigorous 200 calories on this run, I can do the same run and only burn 150 calories. So it runs with you and indeed it proved that it could do the same play and burn less calories doing it. Your body has succeeded in doing what it does best...become efficient.

Ah ha! Eureka! Now you know. So what to do random it. Throw your body a surprise party and call it Cross training. Cross training is a great way to condition different muscle groups, develop a new set of skills, and reduce enervation that creeps in infra months of the same exercise routines. The term cross training refers to a training routine that involves several different forms of exercise, and/or exercise intensity levels. Get up tomorrow and instead of running for 45 minutes, jump on the bike and take a spin. Instead of doing 45 minutes of a moderate intensity run. Kick it up a notch and do 20 minutes of intense interval training (fartlek run will do as well) Providing different challenges in a workout forces the body to move out of its sharing of grief zone and the body must work harder to complete the activity… Resulting in more erg burn. More eating the dust off from the origin of your shoes as you leave those pound behind. But that’s not the only lend a hand of cross training. If sports are your passion cross training can unambiguously help you prevent injury and overuse syndrome. For most sports enthusiasts, cross-training is a splendid training method for maintaining a high level of overall fitness and that’s not all Cross Training

Reduces exercise boredom

Allows you to be flexible in the air you training needs and plans (if the pool is closed, you can go for a run instead).

Produces a higher level of all in every quarter conditioning

Conditions the entire body, not just specific muscle groups

Reduces the risk of injury

Work some muscles while others rest and recover

Can continue to train while injured

Improves your skill, and balance