why your glutes aren’t growing: #4

The grand finale of our glute growth mistakes! So far we’ve covered a LOT.

Here is the final mistake that we absolutely need to cover.

You really won’t get far without getting to grips with this one.

Mistake #4 is…

“The little miss impatient mistake”

• When we say building muscle takes time, we mean timeeeeeeeeeee. And that’s just for baby gains. For us coaches to build our physiques worthy of winning bodybuilding shows took at least ten years. So getting frustrated that your glutes haven’t grown after 6 weeks of following your new training plan is incredibly unrealistic.

• Don’t be disheartened by this. Yes, at times it can feel frustrating because you’re busting your ass off in the gym, and it can feel like you’re not getting anywhere. We know, we’ve been there. But having realistic expectations of the process is the first way to improve your enjoyment, and therefore commitment, to the process. We see a lot of girls give up on their muscle building journeys before they’ve barely begun, simply because their expectations left them frustrated with the reality of the process.

• Everyone builds muscle at different rates. We all have different genetics, different starting points, different environments. But if you apply everything I have taught you in these last 4 blogs, you can see progress in 12 months. Our clients who make the ‘biggest’ transformations in terms of muscle growth and improved body composition will have done several years of these building phases with their coach.

• Finally, with any long term goal like building muscle, it is really important to ‘chunk’ it up and set little targets along the way. It’s much more enjoyable that way, and your goal feels far less overwhelming and distant. Performance based goals, like squatting your first 80kg, also remind you that although it’s cool to have big glutes, your body is more than just what it looks like.

More mistakes coming next week!

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