Top 5 Reasons You’re Not Seeing Results

This week within the Rock Your Life Community I received an important query from considered one of my members, MaryLou Rea.

No sooner had I answered her than I instantly received an identical query on the weblog, my fan web page, on my Instagram, and even my buddy Barb was asking me this query! Whereas I had talked about this on dwell teaching calls earlier than, I hadn’t put it collectively in a single place for you as a reference till now.

In case you’ve been questioning one thing related, right this moment I’ll take you thru the highest 5 explanation why you aren’t seeing the outcomes you might be after although you might be displaying up and doing the work.

1: Overtraining

Overtraining is a think about quite a lot of continual fatigue, it’s the explanation individuals get injured after they shouldn’t, AND it’s a offender in why you don’t see outcomes sooner.

When you’ll be able to give 100% to the exercise you might be doing, you’ll get extra out of it. So it follows that you just need to be ABLE to offer 100% by being absolutely recovered from the final one.

Throughout your exercise, you’re really creating irritation within the muscle tissue and tearing it down. In a powerful, wholesome particular person (one who’s nicely rested, nicely nourished and harm free), that’s nice, as a result of that tissue grows again stronger than ever AFTER your exercise WHEN you REST.

Exercising an excessive amount of can create a state of continual irritation within the physique, setting you up for fatigue, lack of weight reduction (your system is wired, which makes it maintain onto physique fats) and also you’re extra prone to get injured on muscle tissue that hasn’t absolutely recovered.

For this reason you don’t need to overtrain, or train with excessive depth day-after-day.

Concentrate on the kind of exercises you’re doing every day, and conscious of your vitality ranges. We’re all somewhere else, with various objectives – so let your health stage and the way in which your physique feels after you exercise be your information.

This turns into important in perimenopause and postmenopause, as decrease ranges of hormones imply it takes our our bodies slightly longer to get well (learn my coaching guides for balanced training in perimenopause and balanced training postmenopause right here).

You’ll must experiment to seek out out your candy spot, however even once you do it will probably change from week to week, both since you didn’t get an important evening’s relaxation, your month-to-month cycle, further stress, or considered one of your exercises was simply extra taxing than traditional and also you want extra restoration time.

I get the need to “transfer day-after-day” and that’s a very wholesome angle. Nevertheless it doesn’t additionally must imply “no days off” with regards to coaching. Shifting day-after-day can embody your precise devoted exercises AND actions like walks, hikes or informal bike rides, shoveling snow, raking leaves, gardening, or different actions the place you’re shifting, however not for a “exercise.” I prefer to name these “active recovery days” (here’s 10 ideas for those days for you).

In most of my workout challenges, we give you 2 relaxation days, one that’s devoted to mobility or stretching, and one that’s fully off. We additionally supply customizes programming for our Rockstars in perimenopause and postmenopause to make sure you’ve received the precise steadiness of coaching to restoration on your life stage. You might use that as an energetic restoration day and do one thing enjoyable, however for one of the best outcomes together with your coaching your physique wants the restoration time from the exercises.

As you get stronger, your physique will crave extra depth because it wants a stronger stimulus to adapt to. Nonetheless that’s one thing you need to construct into the times you exercise, both by making your exercises longer in length, or utilizing extra resistance. Extra depth doesn’t imply extra exercise days – you’re nonetheless working at your physique’s capability (even when it’s elevated) and you continue to want restoration days so you may hit your subsequent exercise with 100%.

2: Skipping Meals

One of many MOST necessary elements to seeing outcomes is fueling your physique typically, and getting in tune together with your starvation and fullness cues.

As girls, we do higher in a fed state vs a fasted state. Researcher, scientist, and well-known for her TED Talk “Women are Not Small Men,” Dr. Stacy Sims outlines this superbly in a latest article about why Intermittent Fasting isn’t ultimate for ladies:

“You might hear about males getting cognitive focus and readability of thoughts when they’re in a fasted state, and it is because we all know particularly that the parasympathetic response in males is one which may be very robust.

However in girls, it’s not a parasympathetic response. It’s a sympathetic response to not having sufficient energy. In a fasted state, girls are anxious, they have mind fog, they get slightly little bit of melancholy and an elevated coronary heart charge, and it’s as a result of they’re in such a excessive sympathetic drive.

We additionally know that in girls, there’s no enchancment in blood glucose management, the place as in males there may be. We additionally know that the autophagy that’s so well-documented in intermittent fasting, may be very minimal in girls, but it surely has an enormous impact in males.

The most important factor about IF is it indicators a rise in visceral fats in girls. (the fats across the important organs, the protecting fats that’s actually laborious to mobilize and will increase cardiovascular threat.)”

The opposite factor that may mess you up once you don’t eat is you’ll be extra prone to play that psychological recreation with your self like, I didn’t have lunch, so this piece of chocolate cake isn’t any huge deal. Nothing unsuitable with treats, however once you’re in that cycle of “skip-reward” it’s not doing you any favors.

And skipping meals additionally units you up for cravings -because your  physique simply wants vitality, and reaching for the quickest supply of it, sugar, is a useful solution to get some. However that has penalties, as you recognize.

Insulin helps your physique regulate blood sugar ranges by guiding your cells to simply accept the glucose from the meals you simply ate. When your cells take up that gasoline, you get vitality. A skipped meal may cause blood sugar ranges to drop, which may throw off your insulin system and over time, create insulin resistance. As soon as your physique and mind have stopped “listening” to insulin’s indicators and cease absorbing glucose, you find yourself with extra glucose floating round in your bloodstream which your physique (in)conveniently packages up as fats.

Insulin resistance: Insulin’s job is to assist convey your blood sugar ranges again to equilibrium by opening up the cells to obtain glucose. People who find themselves insulin resistant produce insulin, however their cells have stopped responding to it.
The pancreas, which makes insulin, turns up the amount, producing increasingly insulin in response to the elevated blood sugar, however the cells nonetheless don’t take it up and blood sugar continues to rise.
Extended elevated blood sugar can harm organs and nerves, and is related to weight problems, sort 2 diabetes, excessive ldl cholesterol and hypertension.

Insulin Sensitivity: Insulin sensitivity refers to how responsive your cells are to insulin – so how a lot insulin must be produced to be able to shuttle the quantity of glucose within the bloodstream.
You’re insulin delicate if a small quantity of insulin is required to deposit the glucose you’ve taken in.
Enhancing insulin sensitivity might help you cut back insulin resistance, and cut back the danger of many illnesses, and ensures your physique converts the vitality out of your meals in probably the most environment friendly method (together with supporting your muscle).

The extra insulin delicate you might be, the extra readily your vitamins will probably be partitioned to the muscle tissue to be saved as glycogen (moderately than fats storage). As we get into our perimenopause years after which into postmenopause, we turn into much more delicate to our insulin response as our estrogen ranges decline. Taking note of common meals with fiber-rich carbs, loads of protein, and wholesome fats and greens is important.

You see, your physique likes to be in a state of fixed equilibrium-that’s what starvation is for: to remind you to eat so you may keep a gradual vitality state. Skipping meals will make you are feeling drained, reduce your means to focus, create cravings, and make you maintain onto your physique fats.

It’s completely advantageous if you happen to eat 5 occasions a day, 3 occasions a day or inside a time window. Simply make sure to eat ENOUGH meals every day so that you just really feel happy and full, and guarantee its from nutrient dense sources so that you get the advantages and reap the rewards.

3: Not consuming sufficient nutrient-dense meals

Each time you eat, you’re creating the muse and tissue that make up the precise form and construction of your physique – and each time you train, you’re merely placing the ending touches on the attractive physique you’ve sculpted with what you place in your mouth.

How your muscle makes use of the meals you eat for vitality and development (excerpt from How Muscle Works)

The meals we eat within the type of carbohydrates, fats and protein are all potential gasoline sources for the physique’s vitality wants. They observe totally different metabolic pathways that present us with quick vitality or saved vitality for later use, and our muscle cells entry them in several methods.

Carbohydrates are damaged down into glucose, which can be utilized for quick vitality, or despatched to the liver and muscle tissue and saved as glycogen.  Your physique has a restrict to how a lot glycogen it will probably retailer in each locations.

The liver has a set capability, and muscle tissue can retailer a set quantity that is determined by the quantity of muscle you have got. In case you soak up greater than you should utilize for vitality and greater than you may retailer in your muscle tissue and liver, will probably be saved as physique fats.

Throughout train, there are a number of methods your muscle tissue get entry to gasoline:

• Saved muscle glycogen is transformed again into glucose fueling muscle contraction.
• The liver converts its saved glycogen again into glucose, stabilizing the blood sugar, and likewise making itself out there for the muscle tissue to make use of for vitality.
• Saved physique fats (in our adipose tissue) is damaged down into fatty acids which can be transported by the blood to gasoline the muscle tissue – however it is a slower course of in comparison with the way in which the physique makes use of carbohydrates (glycogen) for gasoline.

Fats helps gasoline your muscle tissue for low to average depth exercise (within the presence of oxygen availability), so the every day vitality you expend doing all of your common actions, and any train carried out at or under 65% of your cardio capability. Carbohydrates gasoline increased depth exercise, when your physique can’t course of sufficient oxygen to satisfy its wants (see 2 in part IV).

Not like fats and carbohydrates our physique doesn’t have a “storage reserve” for protein. This is without doubt one of the causes it’s a good suggestion to incorporate it in your entire meals all through the day. Protein is primarily used to construct, restore and keep physique tissue (in a course of referred to as protein synthesis) and make enzymes and hormones. It serves solely a tiny share of the physique’s vitality wants.

The protein you eat is essential in supporting muscle tissue restore and growth in a course of referred to as muscle protein synthesis (MPS).

Protein is the primary constructing block of muscle tissue. If you eat meals that include protein, they’re digested into their amino acids that are transported to physique tissues and constructed into tissue proteins. Protein synthesis is the method of constructing new proteins, which occurs in all of the physique’s organs.

Muscle protein synthesis (MPS) is the method the place your physique builds particular muscle proteins from amino acids, and this contributes to muscle dimension.

Muscle protein synthesis could be elevated by together with protein with every essential meal, and by together with protein after you train – after the “tear down” has occurred. The amino acids from the protein you ingest will probably be shuttled to your muscle tissue, changing any misplaced throughout train.

The contractions your muscle tissue make lower muscle protein synthesis throughout a exercise, but it surely rebounds post-exercise particularly when protein or amino acids are added. Research present that between 20-40 grams is one of the best quantity to help this course of, and that consuming protein all through the day in your meals can be a contributing issue.

In case you’re in your biking years, attempt beginning out with 20-30 grams of protein per meal (assuming 3 essential meals per day). In case you’re over 40, you could want slightly greater than that as our physique doesn’t take up the amino acids as simply as we age. You may intention for extra like 30-40 grams per meal (assuming 3 meals per day) as a baseline, or just add a protein shake within the combine to assist get your numbers up general.

Like we had been speaking about above, your physique can retailer the glucose you don’t want for quick vitality in 3 locations, your liver glycogen, your muscle glycogen, and/or your fats cells.

“Nutrient partitioning” describes which of those 3 paths will probably be taken, and that has so much to do together with your present quantity of physique fats, muscle mass, and hormone ranges – significantly insulin.

In case you are insulin resistant, fats storage is prioritized. When you’ve got good insulin sensitivity, muscle and liver storage is prioritized, and also you get the bonus advantage of it aiding your amino acids getting into the muscle tissue as nicely (muscle protein synthesis).

Enhance your insulin sensitivity by consuming complete meals, and getting common train.

Continually consuming excessive sugar meals (or consuming in extra of what your physique can course of) triggers the insulin response again and again, resulting in insulin resistance. Doing the alternative of that, consuming low-glycemic (low sugar) meals – within the type of fiber wealthy complete meals carbohydrates is a good way to enhance your insulin sensitivity.

A slower, steadier inflow of glucose (moderately than an enormous spike) provides insulin an opportunity to do its job on the proper tempo. Together with fiber helps us really feel extra full – which means we gained’t be as prone to overeat. Dietary fats has an identical impact, slowing down nutrient absorption and making us really feel extra full and happy so we’re not as prone to overeat. Plus, fats may be very nutrient dense, giving us loads of vitality in a smaller bundle.

Cooking your individual meals so you recognize precisely what’s going into your physique is a perfect solution to help your muscle tissue. It’s far simpler to overeat once you’re consuming pre made meals from refined flour and sugar like breads, cereals, sweets and desserts – they don’t include as a lot fiber as their unique substances did, and fixed reliance on them will simply carry on spiking your insulin, resulting in extra physique fats storage and insulin resistance.

Here are just a few of the healthy, whole food recipes found in the Body Fuel System, my signature eating plan.

Insulin additionally has the additional benefit of lowering muscle protein breakdown (MPB). Within the absence of insulin, or within the case of insulin resistance muscle catabolism (breakdown) happens.

Your mind wants a relentless, regular provide of glucose to operate optimally, and MPB permits the physique to realize entry to amino acids that may be transformed into glucose when there aren’t sufficient out there out of your different shops. Muscle protein breakdown also can happen after we don’t eat sufficient meals (or too few carbohydrates) and glycogen reserves are depleted. The physique wants gasoline, so skeletal muscle is damaged down and transformed to glucose.

Fats, protein and carbohydrates all present the vitamins your physique wants on your exercises, and consuming them all through the day from complete meals sources will offer you loads of gasoline for each every day actions and muscle development. Collectively these vitamins help wholesome muscle tissue earlier than, and after a exercise.

So many individuals are strolling round with nutrient deficiencies masquerading as CRAVINGS, that might be resolved by consuming actual meals and rotating their greens (learn my 5-step food prep and recipes guide for a 3-day plan and recipes to attempt.)

A good way to get began is to consider 2-3 breakfast options you want (for me it’s eggs, oatmeal and smoothies), your favourite entrees that would double as dinner or lunch – and I simply consider what proteins I need to base them on, then what carbs, and eventually what fat would work nicely (so simple as olive oil or hemp seeds or avocado).

I fill that in with a pair snacks like handmade pumpkin protein muffins or a straightforward to make path combine, a pair staple sides I might need available every day like a giant blended greens salad and a few rice, quinoa or pre-made simple to seize candy potato chunks – and make my record and choose my recipes round that.

For therefore many causes, it’s important that you just take your consuming simply as significantly as you’re taking your exercises.

Whereas it’s simple to get centered on our exercises and tougher to get centered on vitamin, keep in mind that the way you eat is a lot extra necessary to your exterior (and inside) outcomes. There isn’t any train plan on the earth that may out-train poor vitamin.

4: Not getting sufficient sleep

Not getting sufficient sleep is such a SNEAKY approach that we will sabotage our outcomes. A typical day for lots of people is to stand up early, prioritize their exercise, skip breakfast, have a couple of drinks after work, after which  after a protracted day keep up late to cram in just a bit additional “me time.”

Sadly, this is sort of a good storm for metabolic meltdown, and the easiest way to maintain padding your waistline.

We already talked about what occurs once you skip meals, however skipping sleep is horrible for our well being. It could actually additionally result in the event of insulin resistance, and sort 2 diabetes, weight problems, coronary heart illness and hypertension.

Getting lower than 6 hours of sleep an evening can result in weight acquire and elevated cravings for unhealthy meals. Lack of sleep can result in the event of many continual illnesses. It additionally disrupts necessary metabolic pathways which can be concerned in your vitality steadiness and regulation which in flip results your outcomes.

Many necessary hormones which can be instantly associated to you seeing your physique reply to your exercises and wholesome consuming are disrupted when sleep high quality and amount are insufficient. Getting sufficient sleep means that you can carry out higher, makes you happier, regulates your hormones, reduces stress ranges, improves focus, creativity, reminiscence and regulates and reduces irritation.

Plus, having sufficient relaxation provides you the vitality to get to a exercise on the finish of the day if that’s the solely time you may go, get you up and at it first factor within the morning, and assist you handle worrying issues which will come up all through the day.

Everyone seems to be totally different however I agree with the Nationwide Sleep Basis –  getting round 7-9 hours is perfect. Some issues that assist with falling asleep and staying asleep are ensuring your surroundings doesn’t expose you to mild as mild in your pores and skin indicators your physique that it’s time to get up.

You may also use a sleep masks as wanted for a very good sound sleep. Start winding down from laptop or telephone use an hour or so earlier than you’re planning to sleep and take into account that the sunshine from TV’s and digital units disturbs your means to relaxation.

Read more tips about getting good sleep – and why it matters – right here.

5: Not constructing stress resilience

Stress raises your ranges of a hormone referred to as cortisol in your physique. Cortisol, in its regular capability has necessary jobs like supporting your sleep-wake cycle, however because it pertains to this dialogue it additionally has the power to boost blood glucose ranges when it’s elevated since you’re chronically burdened.

In occasions of stress our our bodies go into “flight or battle mode.” When this occurs your physique releases adrenaline and cortisol. Within the short-term, the adrenaline reduces your starvation ranges as your blood flows away from the interior organs to your bigger muscle tissue that will help you defend your self. Nonetheless, as soon as the results of adrenaline put on off, we’re left with cortisol.

This cortisol tells your physique it’s time to replenish your meals provide however we’re additionally left with extra quantities on the identical time. The surplus ranges of cortisol slows down your metabolism to take care of an sufficient provide of glucose in your blood to be able to battle off any risk (stress).

As soon as the worrying occasion is over and our stress ranges fall,  our glucose ranges stay excessive and that glucose will get saved as fats. Most notably visceral fats and belly fat. Cortisol additionally promotes the breakdown of our precious muscle tissue. And as we enter into perimenopause and postmenopause, decrease ranges of our hormones make us extra prone and delicate to the impression that cortisol can have.

Constructing practices that actively help extra stress resilience could be so helpful. Easy issues like strolling outdoors, being in nature, being current, training mindfulness, beginning a daily respiration apply or meditation apply, journaling or different actions that floor us can all be actually useful in each decreasing our stress and likewise constructing our resilience to the stress we face.

In any case, we will’t management that life may have its ups and downs and throw issues at us unexpectedly! So it’s good to domesticate some instruments that assist us address it when it occurs. Identical to we prepare our our bodies to be stronger (and that helps us have extra energy and functionality), coaching our thoughts and supporting our nervous system give us reserves to name on after we want them too.

LISTEN: 12 Ways to improve your stress resilience

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