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If you've ever started an exercise or training routine, you know how frustrating it can be when your gains start to slow down and stagnate. Maybe the scale shows that you have stopped losing weight, or you're unable to add more plates to your bench press. Whenever we stop making gains, we call this reaching a plateau. Plateaus, in any area of life can be discouraging. No matter how hard we train, it seems we're not making any progress. But like a mini peak on a mountain, there is always a way to get to the summit.