When progress slows, most people change their workout.
Few change their consistency.
Consistency isn’t just frequency. It includes effort quality, recovery habits, focus, and repeatability. These factors erode gradually, making plateaus feel sudden.
Changing routines often restores short-term progress because it renews attention—not because the new plan is better.
This creates a misleading feedback loop:
Stall → change program → short progress → stall again.
Over time, this conditions people to search for change instead of reinforcement.
The hardest part of training isn’t learning what to do.
It’s maintaining the same standards when novelty fades.
Progress responds more to sustained engagement than constant adjustment.
