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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1095: How to Break Through a Plateau

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.811.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Hitting a training or diet plateau is frustrating. In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin go into detail how to break through plateaus and how to avoid them altogether.

  • The frustration of hitting a plateau. (3:03)
  • Don’t be so hard on yourself! (6:10)
  • How would you define a plateau? The importance of looking at the WHOLE picture. (7:51)
  • Some of the reasons your body may by plateauing and what you can do about it. (16:14)
  • The concept of ‘perpetual’ progress in breaking through a plateau. (51:30)

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0:00.0

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0:35.2

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0:42.5

For sure the most frustrating thing that can happen to you when you're trying to get your body to change,

0:48.3

when you're trying to improve your fitness or your performance or trying to get leaner is a plateau.

0:53.9

It's the most frustrating thing ever. You're working your butt off. You're doing things that are working.

0:58.5

And then all of a sudden they seem to stop working. So in this episode, oh it sucks.

1:03.1

So in this episode, Adam, Justin and myself go through, well first off we just defined what a real plateau is.

1:10.2

Sometimes people think they plateaued, but they're just not paying attention to the other signs and signals that their body's telling them that their body's actually progressing.

1:17.4

So we define a plateau. And then if you decide that you are in an actual plateau, we talk all about the main reason

1:23.8

why the plateau has happened, how to avoid the plateau or how to overcome the plateau once you're in it.

1:30.1

So you're not going to want to miss this episode. Now in this episode, I did talk about nutrient deficiencies and hormone imbalances.

1:37.5

Now both those not super common reasons why plateaus tend to happen. But if you have a nutrient deficiency or hormone imbalance,

1:45.3

the only way to get yourself out of a plateau is to address one of those two things.

1:49.5

Now you can go to your doctor and get those things tested, but it tends to be expensive.

1:53.6

Difficult doctors tend to not want to give you these tests unless there's big glaring issues with your health and your body.

1:59.4

But you can do this yourself. You can go around your doctor and actually order tests at home. They are inexpensive.

2:05.2

The company you want to go with is Everly Well. We are sponsored by Everly Well. So they are one of our sponsors and one of our partners.

2:12.4

Here's what you do. We got a discount for you. Go to EverlyWell.com and use the code MindPump to get 15% off.

2:19.2

Any test. And that's it. Also this month, I do want to remind everybody, maps prime and prime pro for the first time ever are 50% off.

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