Not Seeing the Results You Want?
You’re 60+ and Not seeing the muscle gains you want?
Consistency is key.
We are all hearing, now more than ever, how we need to have muscle to live a healthy life as we age. It’s part of our 401k of health. We need to lift weights. Muscle is where it’s at.
Okay message received. You being to lift weights or join a class where strength work is included.
But you are not experiencing the muscle gains you were hoping for. Or there are some gains, but not as much as you would like, or the gains are happening at a snails pace.
A few things may be going on that interfere with gaining muscle, but I am going to address just 1 factor. Consistency.
Are you consistent with showing up for your strength work?
You can have the best laid out plan with exercises, progressions, and rest scheduled in, your getting your 7 hours sleep, your eating protein at the level you need, but if you are not showing up on a consistent basis to the class or the gym you won’t experience the changes you would like.
What to do?
Keep a log of your actual gym/class days and dates. Are you getting in 3 x week? Or is your calendar looking like Swiss cheese-lots of random holes! You exercise one day then the next session comes 5-6 days later, you miss a week while on vacation, you go to yoga instead of strength work, then you get in a good week only to miss the next two.
Track your workouts to show your progress
Hmm. This could be why you are not getting results.
The good new, once you have a visual, you can see where you can make changes to truly commit to the three days each week. If you can measure it, you can manage it.
You may find in this consistency tracking of your workouts that it is NOT consistency holding you back but something else (see above list). You can then look at other aspects of what may be keeping you from seeing the results you want. Take consistency off the table, go explore another avenue.
But if lack of consistency is a portion of the problem you have control to do something about it.