Episode 332: 5 Reasons Your Workouts Aren’t Getting You the Results You Want

Let's get stuck into number one.

You're doing lots of cardio and you're not lifting weights.

This is really, really common.

You might be doing Zumba classes, dance classes.

You might walk for an hour every morning and you cannot understand how you're not in great physical shape, how you're not seeing the results from the effort that you're putting in.

And it comes down to this, really simply, when you're a young woman, you have a high metabolism, you have lean muscle, you have a good bone density, you burn a lot of fat at rest.

Simple, that's it.

If you're overweight, it's because you are overeating.

When you get older, your lean muscle mass decreases.

The muscle mass on your body just decreases.

This, put simply, leads to you burning less fat at rest because you've got less lean muscle.

So your muscle mass is shriveling away.

You're losing that nice muscle definition if you ever had it on your body.

Your metabolism is getting slower and more sluggish.

So you're, number one, gaining weight a lot more easily, and number two, you're not seeing any definition in your body that you may used to have seen.

This is a simple fix, but the answer is not doing more cardio exercises.

And that includes yoga, pilates, swimming, walking, cycling.

What you want to do is put pressure and challenge on your body.

What you specifically want to do is to build lean muscle.

Now, the only way your body is going to get lean muscle on it is if you put it under challenge.

You want to grow your muscles.

You literally want to grow your muscles.

Now, thankfully, you're not gonna bulk out.

You want to grow your muscles.

And to do that, you want to lift weights.