Do You feel like Your Weight has Plateaued?
Have your bathroom scales frozen at a set weight even though you have increased your training?
Here are three things to consider:
Are you measuring accurately? At the very least you will want to know your bodyfat percentage. It would also be good to know how much of your total body fat consists of visceral fat. To be thorough, your muscle mass is also important to know and if you really want a complete picture it would be a great idea to measure your bone mass and body water levels.
These measurements allow you to accurately track your health and assess your training effects on your total body composition, rather than just your whole body weight on the scale. As you increase your training your weight on the scale may stabilise even though your body fat percentage has dropped ✅ and your muscle mass has increased ✅.
Too much cardio can erode your lean muscle mass. Lean muscle mass is your freedom. It is essential for increasing your metabolism and allowing you to burn more fuel (food) at rest.
Cardio training encourages your body to become more endurance-focused. It is fantastic but you need to recognise that it can encourage the body to store energy as fat. Storing energy as fat provides fuel for your body to keep you going for all the k’s your running. It’s a survival mechanism - your body is trying to assist you.
Cardio training tends to increase our appetite. If you are not dialed into healthy portion sizes or healthy carbohydrate choices, this may lean into unnecessary snacking or overeating.
Weight resistant exercise, and particularly lifting heavy weights, build muscle by causing little microfibre tears that require nutrients and tools (food, water, rest) to rebuild them stronger than they were previously ✅. The muscle biological response is to hold onto more glycogen and water in anticipation of the next time you train. This is awesome and necessary but it may not reflect an immediate drop on your bathroom scales.
For these reasons, bathroom scales can mislead and demotivate your progress early on. it’s better to measure accurately on a Body Composition Monitor that brings you fast, correct body composition results using the latest advanced bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) technology. Our body analysis scale gives you a true indicator of your inner health and when monitored over time, can show the impact of all fitness regimes or fat loss programs. This will allow you to increase your motivation and stop waiting for several weeks before you see your gains.
