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name: strength-plateau-troubleshooter
description: "Same weight for two months. Which of the five likely causes is it? Use when the user wants help with Strength Plateau Troubleshooter. Related topics: Fitness, Health, Research."
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# Strength Plateau Troubleshooter

Same weight for two months. Which of the five likely causes is it?

## How to use this skill

1. Ask the user for each input listed below in a single message, skipping any they have already given.
2. Where options are listed, offer them, but accept other answers too.
3. Fill the answers into the prompt template, then follow the completed prompt to produce the result.

## Inputs

- **The lift, and the numbers** (free text, e.g. "Exercise")
- **My current program** (longer free text)
- **Sleep and stress lately** (choose one: Good, Patchy, Bad, Genuinely terrible)
- **Eating** (choose one: Deliberate surplus, Maintenance, Deficit, No idea)
- **Anything hurting** (longer free text)

## Prompt template

My lift has stalled and I want a diagnosis rather than a list of possibilities.

- The lift, and the numbers: {{The lift, and the numbers}}
- My current program: {{My current program}}
- Sleep and stress lately: {{Sleep and stress lately}}
- Eating: {{Eating}}
- Anything hurting: {{Anything hurting}}

Work through recovery, calories, frequency, technique and program design, then tell me which one my details actually point to. Give me one eight-week change with real numbers, and a checkpoint at week four that tells me whether it worked. If what I have described sounds like an injury rather than a plateau, say that first.

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Source: [Strength Plateau Troubleshooter on PromptBuild](https://promptbuild.io/prompt/dFM8ZBpDWGb2iLe2zkmm/strength-plateau-troubleshooter)