One of the hardest parts of a fitness lifestyle is looking into the mirror without being able to see any improvement.
Granted, this is not as bad as seeing ten or so extra pounds around the middle.
But it is not as good as seeing a significant reward for the incredible effort which a fitness lifestyle requires.
At least that is how it is for most for the first six months of getting fit Seeing no immediate improvement is very common for those over thirty.
That is true even if these people are doing everything right.
By contrast, this does not seem to be the case with high school aged people.
With them, night and day differences can be seen after a mere summer of daily weight lifting, proper diet and intelligent supplementation.
But these may all go away by Christmas due to a lack of sustained effort.
Nevertheless the differences do initially appear and are noticeable by everyone.
Seeing these improvements occur but then seeing them quickly fade away often leads older adults to cynically say that fitness is wasted on the young.
Perhaps they will even say that if only the young folks would have kept at it they would have had something to be proud of when they got to college.
The assumption is that if the adults would have seen such gains so quickly they would have kept with it--something which all too often does not happen.
If that is true, and perhaps it is, one begins to wonder over what enables the younger people to attain relatively spectacular goals in short short periods of time.
In other words, one asks why younger people fare so much better in the short run? If only their success could be duplicated.
Most likely true is that the biological growth factors are simply stronger in those who are younger.
That is the common assumption, at any rate.
Possibly this why so many older persons wish to be young again, as they so often seem to say.
That is certainly understandable.
With older persons, diet, supplementation and exercise- the known catalysts for biological change- seem to always take forever.
Often times they result only in depressing plateaus which account for the March drop out phenomenon following New Year's Day kick -off.
That, the health club owners know all too well.
Of course, the demands on middle aged persons are greater, making sustained discipline far more challenging.
But it seems most likely that the greatest factor is the lack of apparent improvement.
This is what stares back at us as we look sadly in the mirror.
The danger in too much contemplation of this state of affairs is to believe that real weight loss or lasting fitness is completely dependent upon age, meaning that it is therefore not worth the effort for the average adult.
Nothing could be further the from the truth.
Adults can benefit as well as teenagers.
It is just that the changes will not almost never occur as quickly.
Therefore what is really needed is an acceptance of the fact that changes will take much longer.
That is to say, those over thirty should not expect to see sharp differences in less than six months.
For further thought on refusing to give up on optimal healthiness order my book "Think and Grow Fit.
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Granted, this is not as bad as seeing ten or so extra pounds around the middle.
But it is not as good as seeing a significant reward for the incredible effort which a fitness lifestyle requires.
At least that is how it is for most for the first six months of getting fit Seeing no immediate improvement is very common for those over thirty.
That is true even if these people are doing everything right.
By contrast, this does not seem to be the case with high school aged people.
With them, night and day differences can be seen after a mere summer of daily weight lifting, proper diet and intelligent supplementation.
But these may all go away by Christmas due to a lack of sustained effort.
Nevertheless the differences do initially appear and are noticeable by everyone.
Seeing these improvements occur but then seeing them quickly fade away often leads older adults to cynically say that fitness is wasted on the young.
Perhaps they will even say that if only the young folks would have kept at it they would have had something to be proud of when they got to college.
The assumption is that if the adults would have seen such gains so quickly they would have kept with it--something which all too often does not happen.
If that is true, and perhaps it is, one begins to wonder over what enables the younger people to attain relatively spectacular goals in short short periods of time.
In other words, one asks why younger people fare so much better in the short run? If only their success could be duplicated.
Most likely true is that the biological growth factors are simply stronger in those who are younger.
That is the common assumption, at any rate.
Possibly this why so many older persons wish to be young again, as they so often seem to say.
That is certainly understandable.
With older persons, diet, supplementation and exercise- the known catalysts for biological change- seem to always take forever.
Often times they result only in depressing plateaus which account for the March drop out phenomenon following New Year's Day kick -off.
That, the health club owners know all too well.
Of course, the demands on middle aged persons are greater, making sustained discipline far more challenging.
But it seems most likely that the greatest factor is the lack of apparent improvement.
This is what stares back at us as we look sadly in the mirror.
The danger in too much contemplation of this state of affairs is to believe that real weight loss or lasting fitness is completely dependent upon age, meaning that it is therefore not worth the effort for the average adult.
Nothing could be further the from the truth.
Adults can benefit as well as teenagers.
It is just that the changes will not almost never occur as quickly.
Therefore what is really needed is an acceptance of the fact that changes will take much longer.
That is to say, those over thirty should not expect to see sharp differences in less than six months.
For further thought on refusing to give up on optimal healthiness order my book "Think and Grow Fit.
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