Throughout your training career, the rate of progress will show different types of expression. In your very first year of training, you are floating through the 'honeymoon period' of weightlifting: you get stronger fast (provided you do the right things), you get hooked into the rapid transformation you see in yourself, and it seems to you like this process with last forever.

 

As you advance in your training, the stronger you get, the harder it is to keep making progress (mind you: I did not say your progress stops). The closer you get to your maximum genetic potential, the more challenging it becomes to climb up the ladder of success. This is a natural development in everyone's training (...)