Have you ever found yourself stuck with your training? You’re hitting the gym consistently, putting in the effort, and doing your best, but you can’t seem to make progress toward your goals?
If that’s the case, you might be dealing with a strength plateau. These are reasonably common but incredibly frustrating to overcome.
Read on to learn what a strength plateau is and what you can do to overcome it.
2. Have you ever found yourself
stuck with your training?
You’re hitting the gym
consistently, putting in the
effort, and doing your best, but
you can’t seem to make
progress toward your goals?
If that’s the case, you might be
dealing with a strength
plateau. These are reasonably
common but incredibly
frustrating to overcome.
How To Break Through Strength Plateaus
4. A good personal trainer can
help set realistic expectations
for how the human body works
and how long it would take to
get the desired results. On top
of knowing what to expect, you
would be equipped with the
proper knowledge to easily
spot scammers selling ideas
that are too good to be true.
What is a Strength Plateau?
5. Five Tactics For Breaking
Through Strength Plateaus
1. Push Yourself Harder
2. Improve Your Technique
3. Switch Up Some Of The
Movements
4. Take Good Care Of Your
Sleep
5. Improve Your Nutrition
7. The single most reliable
strategy for breaking a
strength plateau is to push
yourself harder. Doing so works
because research finds that the
average trainee doesn’t work
nearly as hard as they believe.
1. Push Yourself Harder
9. A good approach for a strength
plateau is to take a step back
and see how you can improve
your technique, even if that
means temporarily reducing
the load you’re using. Sure, that
isn’t what most people want to
hear, but it sometimes
becomes necessary to rebuild
your technique.
2. Improve Your Technique
11. Another effective training
tactic for overcoming a
strength plateau is replacing
certain exercises for a while.
Doing so is an excellent way to
bring engagement into your
training and increase your
effort. Swapping movements is
also beneficial for reinforcing
proper technique and stopping
yourself from getting too
comfortable with your training.
3. Switch Up Some Of The Movements
13. Getting adequate sleep might
seem surprising under the
circumstances, but it plays an
essential role in your long-term
training progress. Good sleep is
vital for your cognition,
motivation, focus, and athletic
performance.
4. Take Good Care Of Your Sleep
15. The subject of nutrition is also
overlooked by many people.
These days, countless men and
women hit the gym
consistently and look for ways
to improve their program, but
ignore their nutritional habits
and pay the price.
5. Improve Your Nutrition