Fitness Fridays #7: When you discover it's your choice and your attitude...

[christa]

HOWEVER my weight loss has totally stalled this week - Christa - any advice re getting over this plateau???

A lot of times, when you hit a plateau, it's because your body is getting used to what you are doing. You may either need to adjust your diet or your physical activity plan. I'm not saying that you need to eat less or exercise more. Just *change* it. Confuse your body so it will wake it up, so to speak.

It's easier to do this with your exercise plan. It would be easier for me to tell you what to do if I knew exactly what you were doing . . . but since I don't know exactly, I'll just give you an example of what I do. About every 12 weeks or so, I simply switch what muscle groups I lift for on each day of the week. Sometimes I'll change up how often I do cardio. Makes it easier if you make a schedule and stick to it.

Mine right now, and I'm sure I've posted this before is . . .

Monday - biceps & triceps & cardio
Tuesday - Legs & Abs & cardio
Wednesday - Delts & Cardio
Thursday - OFF
Friday - Back & Cardio
Saturday - Chest & Cardio
Sunday - OFF
(everyday I do one ab exercise)

Here in a few weeks, I'll be starting a new workout routine - so my body will be *shocked* and won't get used to this same old routine, day in and day out. And after having done this for probably 2 months, I am starting to notice a slowdown of progress.

So, I guess my suggestion to you is just to change it up from time to time.

[JenBKR]

Bumping this up because I FINALLY found the article I got my diet from. Hope this comes through ok. Let me know if you have any questions.

EDIT: It's a bit small to read on screen, and too big when printed....let me see if I can make fix it