5 Reasons Why Your Workout Isn't Producing Results

Working out regularly isn't everyone thing and few people manage to pull it off. But from those few who work, even fewer see proper results of their workout. Why is that, you ask? Even though they put in the same time at the gym as everyone else. There are a number of reasons for this, of which the most important are highlighted in this post.

Your Workout is Stale:

When you keep doing the same routine for a while, your body begins to adapt to it and it doesn't respond as well as it does in the first few weeks of the workout. In order to avoid this, change your workout every once in a while. Target a new muscle group, incorporate different exercises into your routine and keep your body working.

Nutrition:

It is a well agreed upon fact that nutrition is 80% of your results. When you workout, your muscle fibers are torn, and when they are repaired, they become bigger, hence adapting to the workout. But what if there wasn't any protein in your body to create those bigger fibers? Quite naturally, your muscle won't grow as big as they are supposed to, and you'll end up wondering if there is something wrong with the weighing machine.

Eat mas much as you can. Your biggest meals of the day should be breakfast and post-workout, and incorporating smaller other meals in between.

Quality of Workout:

Like mentioned earlier, a lot of people workout, but only some see the proper results. This is because they are putting in the effort into their workout. If you're lifting half of what you are capable of, you're not doing anything to justify your muscle improvement.

So how to know if you are working hard enough?  There are three main judging points through which you can tell how hard you are working:

Sweat: You sweat when you're body is being exerted. Use this as a measure of how hard you're working at the gym. Do keep in mind that everyone sweats differently. Some sweat a lot with little exercise, some require a lot of exercise to produce a little sweat.

Heart Rate: When your body is in exertion, the heart rate pumps up. This is an excellent measure to know if you are pushing your body beyond its comfort zone.

Overtraining:

As mentioned before, after a workout, your body needs food and sleep to repair the broken muscles and grow stronger. What happens when you don't give it time to recover but keep the muscles working? The answer is simple, they will stop responding the way you want them to and go the opposite way in a process called muscle glycogen depletion, which is not a pretty sight (trust us, we know!).

How do you know if you're overtraining? Keep a look out for these symptoms: 

You're demotivated and tired.

You're in a cranky mood always.

If you think that you're over training, then get more sleep and eat more food. Take rest days when needed.

Training a Single Muscle Group:

This is a very common rookie mistake. Working out a single muscle group per workout (for example, chest on one day and back on another) isn't going to give you desired results. Depending on your workout routine, it can even mean you are working out your one body part once a week, which isn't enough. Try to incorporate two similar muscle groups in a single day for better results.

Do you know more reasons which can cause lag in results? Let us know in the comment section below!