Training Plateau

Overcoming Weightlifting Plateaus

By Bill Willis, BSc, a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University.

[Personal Trainer] Hi. I am Bill Willis of pinnacle fitness, as a professional trainer, I work with people from the rank beginner, just trying to slap on a little bit of extra muscle mass, to the seasoned competitor getting ready for a national level competition. The common thread in all these people's training programs is the experience of a training plateau. It's not an ego thing. it's not a problem with their program design, it's an inevitable factor that happens in everybody's program.

[Personal Trainer] There's two ways to overcome training plateaus. Trial and error, on the other hand, the hiring of a professional trainer to help you overcome them. On the trial and error side, everybody is able to do it, but it could take weeks, months, sometimes even years to make up for progress that you could have made in literally half the time with a trainer. A trainer is very very very well-versed in designing programs to eliminate these plateaus and overcome them as they may arise. They have the advantage is that they've worked with people from all walks of life, experienced all types of training plateaus and have successfully designed programs to overcome them.