When did your gains start to slow down?

[bluecamel91]

I'm new to this site and new to lifting as well. I started 3 months ago and I wish I had started with a set and consistent routine but I have been scatter plot in my lifting.

I'm curious to those of you who are a tad more progressed than me when you started how long was it before you started to hit that 'plateau'? That first week you start lifting you seem great returns. Then the week after that and after a month the progress you make is insane.

When did that explosive growth stop and/or slow down? 3 months? 6 months? A year?

[hanger1989]

After about 20 months of training my gains haven't hit a plateau yet. However the bigger I've got the slower the gains have become. I took a progress photo a couple of months back, and I took another one a few days ago, and the improvements in my physique are very slight. You can just about notice I've gained some muscle, but it isn't a massive change or anything like that.

At your stage of training you shouldn't even be concerning yourself with plateaus, your knowhere near the stage where plateaus should become an issue for you.

Gains will slow down for you, but they won't stop for a good few years yet, aslong as your consistent with your training and diet.

[mtownballer20]

If they ever start to slow down (besides when cutting) take an objective look at your nutrition and training.

[BruceYun]

after i stopped gorging on food day after day.
its pretty tedious.

[bluecamel91]

I guess my concern is that when you get up and say "This is the first day I start lifting weights and stop being a lazy ass" you start on this clock; there is this 'window' from the point when you start lifting where you see explosive growth. My concern is that the first 3 months I have been inconsistent. Sometimes take 10 days off or having a few weeks only doing a few sets 2 times.

I feel like this window (that closes at some undetermined point) is a matter of time and not gains. Make sense? It seems to me that people seem to act as though this window is not about how much you GAIN before you start to level off but simply a matter of time.

So they act as though let's say my window is 5 months. It does not matter if you hit the ground hard and kick ass in that 5 months or if you are sort of scattered and sort of lackluster----that 5 months is your window and after that TIME you start to see diminish returns.

I hope that made some sense.

[MWheatley]

I'm new to this site and new to lifting as well. I started 3 months ago and I wish I had started with a set and consistent routine but I have been scatter plot in my lifting.

I'm curious to those of you who are a tad more progressed than me when you started how long was it before you started to hit that 'plateau'? That first week you start lifting you seem great returns. Then the week after that and after a month the progress you make is insane.

When did that explosive growth stop and/or slow down? 3 months? 6 months? A year?

Obviously your gains are going to be accelerated when you first start. But the rate at which you get them isnt going to just abruptly stop for no reason. The rate is going to slowly decrease over time, but its not going to just stop dead in its tracks out of no where unless you screw up somewhere. Diet and/or rest will be the most likely factors that would cause this to happen.

As for training wise, its not hard to be on a decent workout plan these days. Theres so many floating around the internet its crazy. Some obviously better than others, but if the two other factors above are in check you will still see some gains. And over time you will learn for yourself which ones work well for you and which dont.

With that said grats on getting started with lifting, 3 months in and you were motivated enough to post a thread on here to ensure you keep progressing. Thats a good start.

How has your progress been since you started? What are you goals? What is your current workout plan?

[Lowpala]

I guess my concern is that when you get up and say "This is the first day I start lifting weights and stop being a lazy ass" you start on this clock; there is this 'window' from the point when you start lifting where you see explosive growth. My concern is that the first 3 months I have been inconsistent. Sometimes take 10 days off or having a few weeks only doing a few sets 2 times.

I feel like this window (that closes at some undetermined point) is a matter of time and not gains. Make sense? It seems to me that people seem to act as though this window is not about how much you GAIN before you start to level off but simply a matter of time.

So they act as though let's say my window is 5 months. It does not matter if you hit the ground hard and kick ass in that 5 months or if you are sort of scattered and sort of lackluster----that 5 months is your window and after that TIME you start to see diminish returns.

I hope that made some sense.

It is not necessarily a time window, but the closer you get to your genetic potential the slower gains will become.

Edit: To add to that, if you trained inconsistently for a year then decided to be serious and get your training/diet in check, at that point you could see gains as if you were a complete noob - even though you have already been lifting for a year.

[Jesse012789]

as long as you eat enough youll be making steady gains for awhile

[MikePlow]

slow down??


started getting serious in Feb after about 2-3 attempts at getting into this that lasted about 4 months each since 2011...



and my gains are about to skyrocket

[kanis999]

and my gains are about to skyrocket

Hmmm I wonder why...


Gains stalled after my second cut, which completed about 2 years into training. I've hardly been able to improve upon the LBM I carried then, 2 years later.

[Yodums]

My lifts slowed down a year into lifting. I made a ton of progress in the first year (e.g., chest pressing 20 lbs dumbbells to 80 lbs). Ever since, it can be grind for 5-6 weeks until I see progress.

[MikePlow]

Hmmm I wonder why...


Gains stalled after my second cut, which completed about 2 years into training. I've hardly been able to improve upon the LBM I carried then, 2 years later.

Because I'm still sticking to a beginner routine and not jumping around like an r-tard this time 8)

[kanis999]

Because I'm still sticking to a beginner routine and not jumping around like an r-tard this time 8)

Gotcha, I misread your first post. Thought you had been lifting consistently since 2011, and you're now expecting rapid gains somehow.

[MikePlow]

Gotcha, I misread your first post. Thought you had been lifting consistently since 2011, and you're now expecting rapid gains somehow.

Oh lmao.



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