Okay, for your training, are you also employing various exercises to target specific muscle groups?
Muscle growth should be faster if you increase the weight until muscle failure instead of reps.
I have been trying to lose my pregnancy weight recently and just started a new exercise program this week. Do you do any strength training to help lose weight? Only tiny 5 pound weights for my arms while I am cycling That sounds interesting, will you be increasing the weight as well over time? I think it will be a while before that. I'm trying to increase the reps first.
Training commonly uses the technique of progressively increasing the force output of the muscle through incremental weight increases and uses a variety of exercises and types of to target specific muscle groups.