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Age and ability to lift more

workingoutgirl Posts: 289 Joined: 2001/11/15	2001/11/16, 07:29 AM Ok -- does anyone know (I'm 43 - female) if never being athletic and being on a training program for now a year, why I am having a hard time increasing my weights? I am 116 and I guess small framed.
Philia2 Posts: 4,078 Joined: 2001/10/19	2001/11/16, 08:21 AM Look at your diet! Do you get all the right stuff to recover well and fast enough? Do you sleep enough? Secondly do you change exercise program regulary?! You know the body is quite lazy and very fast it gets use to the way you work, so if you don't continue to stimulate your muscles, you'll get no more results.... Finally, the subject of your question; age and ability to lift more. You are young!!!! Of course you can continue lifting and increasing your weights. It's never too late. You have more energy when you're 20 than when you are 60, but you can still easily get great results! Good luck, workingoutgirl
tt_rocker Posts: 389 Joined: 2001/01/25	2001/12/22, 07:41 AM right on.. some people are in their 60's and are more active and have more energy than I do (22 yrs old) :)
rhd2000 Posts: 2 Joined: 2001/08/04	2002/01/11, 08:57 AM Don't forget recovery time. Try to increase by smaller amounts.
Bart266 Posts: 1 Joined: 2002/11/14	2002/11/18, 09:17 PM I've found when I've hit this "no pass zone" I was working it too hard. If you feel like getting mad because you might miss one night at the gym (first time in say a few months)you might be training too hard. Take one week (ONLY ONE WEEK)break. Change your routine for a couple of months, then see if that doesn't help. One thing I've learned is the only thing we have in common is that we are all different. What works for one person may not work for you. You have to experiment. We all have hit these spots.
INTRUDER Posts: 642 Joined: 2002/06/27	2002/11/19, 12:58 PM "Overtraining" I do it all the time, its hard to slow down some times and just take the recovery/rest time that is required. Overtraining is great for burning cals and also for getting burnt-out, but not good for gaining muscle mass/strength. Someteimes it just takes along time for one to figure it all out. Stay focused. -------------- "Get everthing you want--just make a little change now"
Lumina20 Posts: 966 Joined: 2001/10/31	2002/11/20, 06:10 PM ya know, I have kind of the same problem as you workingoutgirl, but I figured out that part of it's in my head: the other day at the gym this guy was teasing me about how little I bench (esp. since I'm a regular) and at first I was a little peeved, but yesterday I was just kinda messing around and seeing how much I could bench at different weights and I really surprised myself. So maybe some of it is mental...