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”. I realize that most of us are familiar with this quotationbefore, but It has never been more truthful than in a healthy weight loss program. People are generally all excited and motivated when they first start out . They have goals of bench pressing 300 pounds or losing 30 pounds along with many other long term goals. But after working out for a short period of time , they begin getting demoralised. Because they are not attaining their goals fast enough for their liking . Weight loss and exercise is a life changing process. There is no quick-fix solution.
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 short-cuts that have 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 eating 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 same of roughly one chocolate bar per day.
Now, to make this happen, you need to have a healthy eating plan and a good fitness regime set-up , 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.
Make changes to your life style and take you time ,and you will comfortably meet your weight and fitness goals .