Getting Discouraged
Ok so here it is, so it has been 2 months and 2 weeks to the day that I have been training. I am upset because I would think that I would have more definition and would be leaner. I know for a fact that I am getting stonger and I am pushing myself but I am just discouraged as all hell right now. I lift5 to 6 days a week, I do cardio at least 2 days out of the week and of course one day of rest. I am doing the protien shakes and small healthy meals, eating six times a day, one cheat meal a week, cutting out sugar and salt……ugh!!!! Help Me!!!!
March 13, 2009 at 8:39 am
THE ONLY THING THAT I CAN SAY IS THAT IT TAKES TIME, AND THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO CUT SOME CALORIES TO SEE MORE DEF. IT ALSO DEPENDS ON YOUR WORKOUTS. HAVE YOU TRIED TO DROP WT AND INCREASE YOUR REPS. THIS OFTEN HELPS. JUST A QUICK THOUGHT. HIT ME UP IF YOU WANT TO TALK MORE IN DEPTH ABOUT THIS.
March 13, 2009 at 8:50 am
1st of all, just looking at your progress pics shows some serious progress. What what are you talking about? You’re definitely leaner.
2nd, since you are not in bad shape, judging from your latest pics, you don’t have a far to go to get ripped. But if you really want to lean out more…..you have to step up that cardio. Probably at least 4x per week. And switch to HIIT: if you’re doing steady-state cardio, you will get less fat-burning benefit than HIIT.
3rd, a big thanks for your service in the military.
March 13, 2009 at 8:51 am
You may be overtraining (not giving yourself time to recover between workouts) if you’re going at it 6d/w. As luna wrote, to be leaner you need to cut calories and do cardio work. The weighted work by itself will do some.
As everyone tells me: patience.
April 24, 2009 at 8:44 am
Brad might be right about overtraining. 5-6 days is a lot. Maybe you could try dropping down to 3-4 days of weight training each week and adding and extra day of cardio and see how that works for you.
Also, you could try journaling what you eat and drink for a few days, just to make sure that your calories are where they need to be.
Keep in mind that it takes some experimentation to figure out what kind of routines works for you. Everybody is a little different.
Hope this helps, and good luck!