Why don’t you see any changes even if you workout

There are two things that need to be discussed. When you see progress, it means that you train, rest and eat right, and you have really good genes. When your diet and workout plan have the results you want, it’s all good But...what if you’re not happy and you can’t see any progress...what then?

 There are quite a lot of people who aren’t happy with their progress.Usually beginners, who want to grow in a month, as they would do in a year and others that think that if you imitate the "big ones", a miracle will happen and will transform you overnight. Of course, here we’re talking about people who show no progress. Needless to say we assume that they eat right, train  with regularity and that they rest and take the proper supplements.

Often the lack of progress is caused by the fact that instead of training your muscles, you are simply lifting weights. Naturally, the muscles get some stimulus even so; even doing simple exercises like fat belly exercises will show some results if you do them regularly.  However, what happens most times is that the stimulus for growth is given to other muscles, not the ones that are trained. It is pointless to wonder why you cannot see any progress in growing a group of muscles if you work the wrong muscles or if the stimulus goes to the wrong muscles.


 What’s the meaning of “training the muscle”?

 The term muscle training implies using weights to contract the muscle, to tire it! The main and only goal is to train the muscle, and not the lift huge weights.


 In order to stimulate the muscle’s adaptation aka to increase the muscle resistance and make it grow, you need to provide the muscle with the exact stimulus it needs to grow, without working it too hard or too frequent. Adaptation happens when you rest, not when you’re working out. The lack of progress usually comes from overtraining and lack of rest; this doesn’t allow the muscle to rest, and the muscle grows when it rests.


 So, keep this rule in mind: it doesn’t matter how much weights you push/lift/pull or how many reps you do! Results are the only thing that matters! So take your time, and don’t lift weights: train your muscles!