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Strength training is about burning calories, transforming your body, and building and maintaining a certain level of functional strength. You might not be challenging yourself enough with the weights during many of your workouts if:
- The current weight you are lifting isn’t a challenge or causing a sweat. Strength training is meant to be nerve recking, because the whole point is to “overload” your muscles so they get stronger. If the weight you are lifting isn’t as challenging as it used to be (or not at all), then it is time to increase the resistance.
- You have never increased the weight you lift since high school. When you first started strength training, then the weight you lifted was a starting weight. Continuing to progress in strength training is essential to getting the most out of your workouts and transforming your body! That means lifting more weight is crucial, especially as you get stronger over time.
- The progress and changes has now come to a stop, or your now in a plateau. Without making your muscles work harder than they’re accustomed to, they won’t get stronger. As you train, your muscles will grow stronger in order to meet the demands you are placing on them. So if you keep offering them the same workload, they will keep working the same amount, and progression comes to a grinding halt.
