Has your fitness hit a plateau? An expert explains how to track progress and when to change your training plan

By Paul Hough, Lecturer Sport and Exercise Physiology, University of Westminster

If you train regularly, your progress will eventually slow and personal bests will become harder to beat. When this happens, it’s tempting to start a completely new training programme – but this is usually the wrong move.

To understand why, it’s important to know how progress happens in the first place.

Exercise causes both immediate responses and long-term changes in your body. The body’s immediate responses to exercise are pretty obvious – an increased heart rate, breathing faster and your muscles…

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