Why progress stalls if calories, volume, or intensity aren’t adjusted?

Adaptation requires increased training stimulus

Muscles adapt demands must increase

Stimulus unchanged adaptation complete

Training stress must evolve over time

Training must outpace adaptation curve

Progress slows when stimulus stabilizes

Muscles respond to relative stress

Body settles into its new normal

Muscles respond to change not sameness

Maintenance doesn’t trigger new muscle growth

Comfort zones are where gains die

Training stops pushing new boundaries

Muscles need progressive reasons to grow