How to move to move past a plateau, prevent one in the first place, or get max benefit for your efforts? Mix it up!
- Change your caloric intake from day to day. If you regularly eat 1600 calories, vary this amount of the course of the week, keeping 1600 as an average. For instance, on Sunday you could do 1700, Monday 1400, Tuesday 1600, Wednesday 1500, Thursday 1800, Friday 1400 and Saturday 1800 again. When I do this I lose faster.
- Change up your cardio frequently. I rotate between step aerobics, floor aerobics and kick boxing tapes at home, and the stationery bike, recumbent bike, elliptical, and treadmill at the gym. Or, as my former trainer advised, you could do 10 minutes on several different pieces of equipment one right after the other.
- Change the kinds of weight lifting exercises you do from workout to workout. This helps to create more symmetrical muscle groups with no weak areas. Even within the separate sections of a muscle group it is possible to develop one segment of that section stronger than another. The possibility of injuring yourself from muscle weakness is reduced when you lift weights, but diminished even further when you change the types of exercises you do for each body part, ensuring all areas of the muscle are equal and balanced.
Bodies adapt very quickly to whatever you demand of them. By changing it up, you keep the body adapting and therefore the positive changes happening.
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