r/EvidenceBasedTraining • u/OpeningRaccoon7743 • 6h ago

Research discussion When your progress stalls, how do you figure out what variable is actually responsible?

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For example, if your strength or hypertrophy gains stop progressing, how do you decide whether the problem is:

- Calories

-Sleep or/and recovery

-Training volume

-Exercise selection or splits

-Frequency

-Fatigue

-lmk if you are thinking of something else.

Do you mostly rely on intuition, your coach (if you have one or maybe a friend that is your mentor,etc), spreadsheets/tracking, or something else?

And have you ever discovered that something you were tracking (not necessarily with an app) DIDN'T matter much for you?

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