A method in a wireless communication system having a forward channel corresponding to transmissions from a first device to a second device, and a reverse channel corresponding to transmissions from the second device to the first device, includes initiating, at the first device, a first update of a steering matrix. The steering matrix is used to beamform transmissions on the forward channel. The method also includes monitoring, at the first device, a plurality of reverse channel estimates corresponding to the reverse channel, determining, at the first device, a metric indicative of a rate of change in the reverse channel based on the plurality of reverse channel estimates, and initiating, at the first device, a second update of the steering matrix based on a comparison between (i) the metric indicative of the rate of change in the reverse channel and (ii) a threshold.