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Where am I going wrong?

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  • VeronicaA76
    VeronicaA76 Posts: 1,116 Member
    You have not hit you "ideal weight", you've just hit your body plateu based on your workouts. It's time to ramp things up a bit. Increase weightlifting to 4-5 times a week and you should start seeing results again fairly quickly. Bad news: you're going to have to revamp your workouts
    Good news: you have advanced to a higher level of working out.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    BabyBear76 wrote: »
    You have not hit you "ideal weight", you've just hit your body plateu based on your workouts. It's time to ramp things up a bit. Increase weightlifting to 4-5 times a week and you should start seeing results again fairly quickly. Bad news: you're going to have to revamp your workouts
    Good news: you have advanced to a higher level of working out.

    You can't be lifting very heavy or with much intensity if you can do it 4-5 times a week, though, right? I could be wrong - I'm no expert - but that wouldn't work for me, personally. I lift 2-3 times a week, and have for years, and if I doubled the days, it would be counter-productive and would hurt my progress. In order to do it with such frequency, I'd definitely have to lower the intensity quite a bit, and that would be like the opposite of my goals. Plus, rest days are important for recovery...

    When it's time for me to ramp it up, I simply increase weight in my lifts, not increase the number of days I lift. If she hits another plateau after that, does it mean she should start lifting 7 days a week? (I also run long distance. If I want to increase my endurance, I simply run longer on my scheduled run days - I don't just keep adding extra run days to my schedule. There are only so many days in the week and over-training is a bad idea...)

    Again, I'm no expert. Maybe that's normal for others to lift that frequently. I guess it depends on the program? But I still don't think additional weight training sessions (or technically, any weight training sessions at all) are necessary to break a plateau.

    I don't think it's the workouts that are the problem. I think it's the total calorie balance - CICO - that is at issue here. She could increase calorie burn or decrease calorie intake. Either one of those, or a combination, should work.
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