5 Reasons Why You Are Not Seeing Results

After a year into me working out I noticed that I was not making any gains in my strength or on my body. I spend months researching what I did wrong and there were five things that I was doing wrong.

Mistake 1: Diet

My diet was off, badly. I was eating fast food and junk food on daily basis, and let's not talk about addiction to sodas I had. I did not eat enough proteins, carbohydrates or anything healthy. I was working hard for nothing in the gym, because without a solid diet you are not going to make any real progress.

Diet is one of the most important parts for a bodybuilder or anyone looking to get into shape. You need to have your protein, carbohydrates, and greens.

Mistake 2: Not enough rest

I was working out six days a week, not giving enough time for my muscles to recover and on top of that I had insomnia.

Your muscles need 48-72 hours to recover, to heal themselves.

Rest is very important so make a routine where you can get 3 days at least before working on the same muscle group again.

You need sleep. Sleep is the time when the body and brain rejuvenates the most. Get at least 7-8 hours of sleep a night.

Mistake 3: Not changing it up

What I mean by this, is not changing the workout routine. Your muscles adapt to certain exercises and schedule. When the muscles adapt to it that is when the progress stops. Not only is staying on same routine for prolonged period of time bad but it becomes boring you just start to lose motivation, doing the movements but are not into it. When you are in the gym, your mind needs to be there too.

Change your routine every 12-16 weeks.

Mistake 4: Inconstant training

Going to the gym one or two times then taking long breaks from working out and so on. A lot of people have routines that are not sustainable. Change requires consistency and time. Design a program that suits your lifestyle and stick with it. Results take time and will not happen overnight.

Mistake 5: Not including "power house" exercises

Bench Press is the ultimate chest builder/sculptor. Every time I go to the gym the bench press is taken, but I look over to the squat rack or deadlift area and no one is there, except the dust bunnies.

I too did not do squats and deadlifts when I started out and that was a huge mistake. Now I do them every time I do my lower body, never skip them.