You have to realize, that gaining strength and muscle or losing a lot of weight , is not a race. This process has to be long-term with realistic short-term goals.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day”. Now, we have all heard this quotebefore, but It has never been more truthful than in a healthy weight loss program. People first start out all motivated and excited to train . They have goals of losing 30 lbs, or bench pressing 300 lbs, along with many other long term goals. But after training for a month , they start to get disheartened. Because they are not achieving their goals quick enough for their liking . Exercising and losing weight is a life changing process. There really is no band aid, fast fix solving.
You have to want to make life changes . Exercise is a way to help improve the total health for women or men. There are no healthy quick fixes that have long long-lasting effects.
Take your time and set short term goals that will help you reach your ultimate long term goals, 5 years from now. I’ve seen a lot of people come and go in the gym. They all started out like gangbusters, but a couple of months down the road, they quit.
Setting unrealistic short term goals is a sure fired way to set yourself up for failure.
Let’s say you want to lose that 30lbs, I mentioned earlier, in 1 year. You have an exercise program set up and a good healthy feeding plan in place. There are 3500 calories in a pound. Let’s break that 30lb weight loss goal into calories per day. 30lbs x 3500calories=105,000 calories divided by 365 days=287.67 calories per day. To reach your goal of a 30lb weight loss in one year, you would have to burn off an extra 287.67 calories every day. That is the equivalent of roughly one chocolate bar per day.
You will have to have a healthy eating plan to make this happen and a good fitness regime in place , that includes weight training for women. Through healthy eating habits and exercise , you will have no problem reaching a 30 lb weight loss in one year.
If having a 300lb bench press is one of you’re goals, and you currently bench 100lbs at a body weight of 150lbs, don’t expect to bench 300lbs overnight. It’s going to take some time.
Take your time, make changes to your life style ,and you will comfortably meet your weight and fitness goals .