Bored with your workout? Making little or no progress, wondering if all this time and effort is worth it? Sounds like you’re in a workout rut.
It’s very common to get to this place after only a few weeks, let alone a few years of working out.
Most likely you’re doing same routine week in, week out. The answer is to mix it up -- what’s known as cross-training. Let’s say you’re going to work out four times a week (which in my book is optimal). Well the answer is to do something different each time you go to the gym. Something like:
Monday: Treadmill, shoulder press, chest press, lat pulldown, tricep kickbacks and dumbbell bicep curls.
Tuesday: Bike, leg extention, let curl, calf raises, leg press and dead lifts.
Thursday: Cardio only: a mixture of treadmill, bike, elliptical and stairmaster.
Saturday: Maybe a class. Spinning, aerobics, circuit training or kickboxing or even better, an outdoor activity, like jogging, bicycling, playing tennis or an organized sport.
If you’re stuck for ideas, look online, check out a fitness magazine
or hire a trainer.