Crashing into the Plateau Wall
When you first begin working out your muscles are shocked. They have by no means ever had to work so hard. Soon you start to notice a new harder physique. You see muscles you never knew you had. The mirror and you are inseparable.
You start to believe you’ll never stop growing. You imagine you’ll be as big as Ronnie Coleman in a couple of months. Then 2 months later you’re stricken with reality. You’ve stop growing. Reason being: you hit a plateau.
Most beginners think a plateau is a green flat plane. Well it’s not. It’s a bodybuilder’s worse enemy. It is the main reason beginners stop seeing gains and start losing motivation. It’s the major cause of why almost everyone quits after 2 months of working out.
Plateaus not only affect beginners, they even hit the stars of bodybuilding. No one wants to hear the P word. Winning the battle against plateaus is what makes your gains keep on coming. In this article I’m going to advise you on the best ways to tackle this evil.
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Even though plateaus occur quite often, most people do not know how to go about giving their training a kick-start again.
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Anyone who has trained for any length of time knows what it’s like. Everything is going great in your training, every week you are either adding weight or reps on all of your exercises. You’re packing on muscle so fast you can see the difference from week to week.
Then when things couldn’t be any better, out of no where BLAM! You hit a wall. You can’t add weight to any of your exercises. You chalk it up as a bad week, and tell yourself next week you will be back on track. The next week comes and again you can’t add more weight or get one more rep on anything.
It is like a bad dream only you can’t wake up. Thankfully there are several things you can do to bust through your plateau. In this article I will discuss the many ways you can get back on track.
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Are you frustrated with your progress at the gym? Do you pump iron week after week, only to see the same physique time and time again? Do you feel discouraged and disheartened by your progress? You may just have hit a plateau!
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Frustrated with your progress at the gym?
Are you pumpin iron week after week, only to see the same soft physique starting back at you in the mirror?
Have your gains vanished like $1 bills at a gentleman’s club?
Don’t worry, you’re not going insane.
I’m sure it seems like just yesterday you were packing on fresh muscle and racing to that lean ripped body with no end in sight.
Then suddenly one day you found yourself struggling to add to weight to any of your exercises.
Can’t seem to squeeze out one more rep on anything.
Still training properly and following a good diet, but all progress has stopped.
Muscles aren’t going up.
Fat isn’t coming down.
What gives???
Chances are you may have crashed face first into the nasty plateau wall.
Happens to the best of us.
And it’s the number #1 killer of motivation.
Major “secret” cause of why almost everyone quits in first 2 months.
It’s only natural for your drive to drop when you stop seeing any progress.
Who wants to keep doing the same thing with little or nothing to show for it?
And you know what?
They can happen to any one of us. I’m not immune to plateaus. And neither are you.
But, we can prevent them or blast our way out of them.
To see how I’m doing it, check out:
A Spartan Rises
And you’ll see there is a method to the madness…
Just as Corey discovered:
“well finished week 6 of the training and I have been training for awhile but this program has helped me make some great gains in areas that I seemed to plateau at. The ladder system of training is great way to gain more. I have in 6 weeks went from approx 180 to 190 on weight gain. Massive jumps in weighted dips, weighted chins, bench and squats. Been a great 6 weeks so far…..”
What most guys don’t realize is they can kick-start or ‘reboot’ their body to blast PAST any plateau that’s holding them back.
Deets here:
Never Retreat & Never Surrender,
Ryan Masters
The Spartan Doctore
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist