Doing Cardio wrongly
To do Cardio workout correctly, we need to carefully make a good balance. If you do not do enough of the Cardio workout, you are cheating yourself out of gains. However, if you do too much you end up exhausting yourself without reason.
The most important thing to do is to watch your heart rate. Good Cardio workout should be within the range of 65-75% of target heart rate. Going any higher than this heart rate zone can burn off muscle mass you gained.
Ensure to reach your Cardio potential by doing not less than 25 minutes and not more than 45 minutes. That zone between 25 and 45 minutes is the fat burning zone where you can not be mistaken.
Overtraining or straining
This is as a result of making the body go through stresses than it can take. This occurs when a person goes through some kind of physical trauma while exercising more than the body can take at a time. At this point a person would have reduced physical performance and plateau in kicks when there isn't consistency in at performing at a certain level of exercising. To recover from overstraining, you have to; a good break from training to allow enough time for recovery, reducing the intensity and volume of training, setting up proper periods for the training, dividing into sets to have different muscles worked on separately, getting sleep to enhance muscle repairs, get deep tissue massages on affected areas.
Being lazy: not enough challenges
Be sure not to cheat yourself when training, follow through and complete the training session you started for maximum results. Take yourself to another level by learning to increase your tolerance for pain. Write down your trainings and monitor your progress as times go by.
Sleep deprivation
Not getting sufficient sleep will only slow you down from achieving your fitness goals. One or two nights of poor or little sleep won't have much impact on performance in general, but when it becomes a habit, it can cause serious changes in hormone levels,especially those related to stress and muscle recovery. Getting that sufficient sleep obviously does not just keep you feeling refreshed but helps you recover from previous stresses.
Depending on just scale to track progress
The muscles in the body weighs more than every fat found in the body. So, it is inaccurate to base your weight loss progress on the numbers that are displayed on the scale .It's been found that women carry up to 10 pounds of water weight, especially when they are on their menstrual cycle. Don't let scale readings to discourage you rather depend on fat calipers to measure your progress.
Relying solely on a gym partner to train
Most times you end up making distracting discussions with your gym partner and end up not training as you've planned. Often times gym partners cancel their training with you at last minutes leaving you all alone with thoughts of postponing the training just because this partner is absent.
Inability to plan ahead
Sometimes we for get most of all we need in the gym at home and end up not training the schedule. You should have your gym bag packed and ready a day before if you are going to work before hitting the gym so that you would not forget the necessary things you need in the gym.
Not taking enough rest and recovery time
Doing your training too quickly will lead to injury or muscle tear, but doing too little training, doing it too slowly will not result in any improvement. There are two different types of recovery; short term recovery and long term recovery.
Not Doing Your Training In Proper Forms
Your training can lead to injury if you do them wrongly. If you are lucky you might just end up with inferior results. Be sure to get proper guidance on how to perform each training correctly. As long as your formal is good, your workout will be effective , and you will see fast results. An important key to performing proper form is to engage every single muscle to its full potential. This would require some mental focus, and not just going through motions absent mindedly.
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