Plateau at 15 months — what helped me push through

Around the 15-month mark in Bodybuilding I hit a wall. My progress with progressive overload wasn't improving and I felt like I was spinning wheels. It's apparently common but that didn't make it less frustrating.

What helped: going back to fundamentals with my coach, spending more time drilling symmetry and proportion slowly rather than at full speed, and watching Arnold Schwarzenegger breakdowns to understand what I was missing. how posing transforms the look of your physique eventually returned once I let go of trying to advance too fast. the physical and mental brutality of peak week was actually the underlying cause of the plateau — once I addressed it, things moved again. If you hit that wall, stick with it. It passes.