Going that bit further!

You hear about even veteran fitness individuals platue-ing and losing drive, you may even find yourself losing motivation or see your results slowing or even going backwards.

Sometimes this is purely because of your body's mechanism to adapt to change.

Your body can adapt so well that a workout that once got you into shape now leaves you unchallenged, and this is where the pitfall begins.

If you don't keep making the challenge harder two things can happen.
1. You lose motivation because the task of fitness becomes mundane. Ever played a piece of music so damn long that you can't stand it after a week or two. Yeah we all have ( if you listen to FM radio you'll know the feeling). Mental stimulus in the form of new personal best goals and achievements and taking yourself last what you "know" you can do will stop the de motivation. However it can help to have someone that with you on the journey, whether a training buddy or a personal trainer. If you do use a training buddy make sure you both strive to keep each other motivated (no slacking)

2. On the body side of things, your body becomes more adapt at dealing with what you throw at it. You get the most change either for muscle growth or fat loss by challenging yourself with each workout. Once you make it to half an hour solid on the tread mill at speed 10, don't keep doing this week after week, change it up. Try for 45 mins instead or increase the speed instead. Your body is you own worst enemy for change, cause once its made the change to cope with the routine, it's no longer effort to do the routine and you expend less energy than you did before.

So mix it up, try and break one personal record each routine you do. Don't break all of them at once, just aim for one broken every session. Change your routine regularly to ensure different muscles get targeted, and keep the challenge going.

Challenge = change and change = results!