As a professional coach, I hear an endless barrage of “I’ve hit a plateau” or “My progress has plateaued” and 36 dozen variants on the theme! Sadly my sincere congratulations seem to be as poorly understood as my Atheistic humor!
Let me be clear a TRUE training plateau is a beautiful thing! I say TRUE plateau because most “plateaus’, as well as nearly every other training issue, can be traced back to either stupidity or laziness!
A true plateau is PROOF of the total exhaustion of a given training modality, meaning (at least temporarily) NO FURTHER EFFORT WILL GENERATE ADDITIONAL PROGRESS in that modality. This boys and girls is a wonderful thing………….first and foremost it validates the efficacy of your current training methods; secondly, it removes a variable from the equation (at least temporarily).
If a true plateau has been reached and NO ADDITIONAL EFFORT WILL GENERATE ADDITIONAL RESULTS, then it’s “KINDA” evident that it’s an ideal time to shift your efforts toward a different aspect of training progress!