Here’s why weightlifting gets BETTER the more you do it

Trying to convince someone to start working out can be hard. Especially if they’re someone who doesn’t yet know how to enjoy physical activity.

However, if you’re someone who’s looking to start a weightlifting routine, this post is for you.

Especially if you don’t know if it’ll be something you’ll enjoy enough to stick with.

Oftentimes, when we start a new workout routine, we find it exciting. It’s easy to be excited and encouraged when you’re starting something new.

However, shortly afterwards we’ll tend to lose interest in our workouts. Eventually becoming bored of our routine and ending up quitting.

This doesn’t need to happen though.

If you find an exercise that works for you, then the long term fitness progress you see will keep you motivated and engaged.

Once you hear about all of these long-term, muscle-building benefits, weightlifting can be that exercise for you!

In this post, I’m going to share with you all the reasons why weight lifting gets better the more you do it. That way, you’ll never want to quit your workout routine again.

In this post you’ll find:

Why weightlifting is essential in everyone’s workout routine

Weightlifting should be an essential part of everyone’s workout routine for one main reason: the benefits!

There are so many benefits of weightlifting, especially for women and girls.

We often times mainly only hear about the physical benefits of weightlifting. Most likely because these benefits are huge, but they aren’t the only ones.

The primary physical benefits of weightlifting are a boosted metabolism, better toned muscles, increased fat loss, and increased bone strength.

However, on top of the physical benefits, weightlifting also provides tons of mental benefits.

For example, things like increased confidence, improved self-esteem, and reduced stress and anxiety, are all some of the mental benefits of weightlifting.

Keep in mind these benefits are just to name a few, not all of them. There are many many more.

Overall, weightlifting provides so many benefits for anyone who wants to spend the time to do it. It’s a clear way to start improving your life, almost automatically.

The only thing is, you can’t see any of these benefits without actually lifting weights.

However, it’s once you start seeing these benefits that weightlifting becomes your new favorite form of exercise.

Why does weightlifting get better the more you do it (it’s a long term investment)

When I think of weightlifting, I like to think of it as a long term investment.

This is partly because results take a long time, but mainly because the more you do it, the better it gets.

Here are the biggest reasons why weightlifting gets even better over time.

You start seeing progress (and it compounds)

Seeing progress from weightlifting takes a long time, I’m talking years and years. Yes, as soon as you start lifting, you’ll start noticing some progress and some changes.

In fact, your progress usually comes the quickest in the beginning.

However, weightlifting progress is extremely slow. That’s why it’s so important to learn how to be patient with your gym progress.

Because of this, instead of seeing a little progress every week, you’ll most likely go months feeling like you’ve made no progress, then suddenly notice some huge changes!

It’s once you start seeing these changes that you really start getting into it. The results you see add fuel to your workouts and your passion.

On top of that, the longer you’re working out, the more changes you’ll notice over time.

You’ll start noticing your fat disappearing and your muscles becoming more toned than ever.

Seeing this, you know that you can only continue to make more progress from here!

I like to think of this as your progress compounding.

The more time you spend lifting weights, the more your results continue to build on each other.

For as long as you lift, you’ll always continue growing and seeing more and more progress.

You develop a mind to muscle connection (it makes lifting more fun!)

I’ll be honest, to me, lifting weights isn’t as fun without a mind to muscle connection. Well, it’s always fun, but having a mind to muscle connection makes it even better!

Think about it, wouldn’t an exercise be much more enjoyable if you could physically feel it engaging and working the muscle that you’re training?

That’s what mind to muscle connection is!

Mind to muscle connection is how well you can feel a certain exercise in the muscle you’re training.

It took me about a whole year to develop a mind to muscle connection. Although, I bet I could’ve developed it way sooner if I prioritized it or even knew what it was when I first started lifting.

Once I developed a mind to muscle connection, I found it much easier to perform certain exercises, develop my own isolation exercises, and make progress.

Not only that, but it also made my workout so much more enjoyable when I could feel how well an exercise actually was working my muscles.

It’s hard to explain a mind to muscle connection, but once you feel it, you know what it is.

I specifically remember, at the start of my journey, I struggled with having a mind to muscle connection in my back and glutes.

I couldn’t really feel back exercises in my back, only my arms. And I couldn’t feel my glute exercises in my glutes, mainly just my quads.

However, now that I’ve developed the connection in these areas, I can actually feel these muscles working when they’re supped to. Because of this, I’ve seem so much more progress in these areas.

On top of that, my workouts are much more fun when I can actually feel my muscles working.

Strength training becomes part of your daily routine

The more you workout, the more it becomes a part of your routine. Once your workout is a part of your routine, it feels weird to go a day without it.

As a result, over time, you’ll start to enjoy your lifts more and more. Because they’re now a part of your daily routine.

Your workouts start to become something you look forward to everyday. For me personally, I wake up, go to the gym, then feel amazing!

I look forward to my workouts everyday. Even if I’m not motivated to go to the gym, my day just feels so much better and more complete once I go.

Additionally, making your workouts a daily habit is also a great way to learn how to stay consistent in your routine.

By turning your workout into something that’s not optional, just something you do everyday, you’ll have no choice but to stick to it.

This works wonders if you’re someone who has trouble sticking to a workout routine.

So, as soon as your workouts become a daily habit, they become so much more enjoyable. You lifts just become a part of your routine and a part of your life.

You can enjoy more food than ever

If you’re someone who loves food like me, then weightlifting is perfect for you.

See, as you lift heavy weights, you put on more and more muscle. The more lean muscle mass you have, the more calories your body will burn at rest.

This is because a pound of muscle burns more calories than a pound of fat does.

Because of this, the more you lift weights, the more food you need to eat to maintain your weight!

Who doesn’t love to hear this, the longer you’ve been working out, the more food you’ll get to eat?

That sounds like a pretty good, long term investment to me.

It’s not like this with all exercises you do (only weightlifting!)

You might be thinking, it’s the same thing with cardio, but really it’s not. The difference is that cardio burn the most calories while you’re doing it.

Then, afterwards, you burn slightly more calories than normal, but not much. Overall your basal metabolic rate will remain pretty much the same.

Whereas with lifting weights, you burn less calories while you’re lifting (depending on how intensely you train), but wayyyy more afterwards.

Each time you build more muscle, your basal metabolic rate increases.

Meaning every time you put on a pound of muscle, or however much it may be, you need to eat more food to just maintain your weight.

This means that you’ll also be able to eat more food to lose weight as well.

Now, this doesn’t mean that you should use this as an excuse to eat whatever you want. It’s still important to fuel your body with protein and the right nutrients.

As well as make sure you continue to eat how you should as a weightlifting women.

But still, weightlifting allows you to increase the number of calories you burn everyday. The more calories you burn, the more food you need to eat to maintain your weight.

Takeaways

It’s easy to enjoy an exercise routine when you first get started. However, as time goes on, it’s also easy for this interest to fizzle out.

Once this happens, your workouts start to feel like work and you might end up quitting altogether.

With weightlifting, this becomes so much more unlikely to happen. That’s because weightlifting is a long term game!

The more you do it, the more enjoyable it becomes over time.

Every time you get into the weight room, you’ll either see more progress or some other kind of tremendous change in your life.

This adds fuel to your passion and is what causes most people to start weightlifting and never stop.

More of my posts on women’s weightlifting:

Here are some of the best kept calf growing secrets

Here’s why you NEED to increase your flexibility

Overcoming challenges women face in the weight room