You've hit a roadblock in your functional training journey. How can you overcome setbacks and plateaus?

Even the most dedicated professionals encounter periods of stagnation, where progress seems to stall. Overcoming these plateaus is achievable and presents an opportunity unlock new levels of professional development. Reassessing Your Strategy: Acknowledging a plateau is the initial step to overcoming it. Analyze your current methods and identify areas for improvement. Seeking External Knowledge: Fresh perspectives often hold the key to breaching a plateau. Seek inspiration from successful colleagues or industry leaders who have navigated similar challenges. Embracing Discomfort: Plateaus often emerge when we settle into a routine. By continuously challenging yourself, you stimulate growth and prevent professional stagnation.

Reassessing your goals is key throughout the process. As if you feel things are getting to easy and you are not progressing, then it is important to adjust and make the right moves to overcome this.

One of the key ways of doing this is by adjusting your workouts or routine. Personally, adjusting your workouts are easy while sticking to a regular workout routine. This helps to stay consistent while challenging yourself with harder and tougher workouts.

Tracking your progress is key. For example if your are trying to improve your body weight pull up and to begin with you can only do 3. Sticking with 3 until it become easier before adding in an extra one will help your progress. But you need to measure how many you can do with the same amount of rest period to make sure you are tracking your progress appropriately.

Rest and recover are when then muscles grow and adapt. Without it, the time spent working out is almost wasted. Make sure you have the right amount of rest between sets when lifting in the gym and follow a hard day in the gym with an easy day. This could be focusing on different muscle groups or just a rest from the gym altogether.

Do not be afraid to seek feedback. Sometimes we need a different set of eyes to. The Feedback we get from others can change our view on a situation, give us solutions we didn't think of and give us more options. Feedback can come from a fitness professional such as a personal trainer. Feedback can also come from a workout pal, online community, etc. Wherever you decide to get your feedback from make sure it is a credible and trustworthy source.

It is hard to patient, but anything worth having takes time. Especially when it comes to seeing changes and progress in health and fitness, patience is required. Plateaus happen to everyone. Take them as a sign that your body has adapted to what you are currently doing and you need to switch it up. When you hit plateau look at it as a small victory of getting stronger. Look at plateau as a sign you are on to the next challenge and one step closer to hitting your goal.