I was training a client the other day and she was talking about how dissatisfied she was with how she felt, she wasn’t happy with how things were going, as in how she’s not able to do some of the things she could do even as recently as last year and she still can’t find the motivation to do some exercise on her own. Before I could say anything, she then followed it up with, ‘I think I might like to walk, but I can’t go far enough for it to make a difference!'...
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I started hitting the gym back in September 2017, I was very weak back then so I started with 30 lbs overhead press and now have made very little progress, that is after 11 months I've reached 80 lbs now and the progress seems to have halted . What should I do? M 19 Started at 140 lbs now after 11 months am 150 lbs Height - 175 cm
I think most people can relate to this in some way, where you start exercising and you feel week at first, but you stay relatively consistent, then over time you get stronger and stronger, but eventually you get to a point where you stop making progress or hit what I would call a plateau. The real question this person is asking is, What do I do when I plateau? In this case it’s about the shoulder press, but the same principles always apply regardless of the specific exercise you’re doing.
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I was working with one of my clients the other morning and they were talking about how during the week they had tried to or had good intentions of doing some exercises on their own, but they were unable to ‘drum up’ the motivation to do anything. Before I could get in there to ask my questions, about what they thought they could do differently to make the exercise more manageable or help them find some motivation for the next time, they followed it up with this question - Jonathan, How do you stay motivated to exercise?
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