Plateaus aren’t the end of progress. They’re where your brain catches up to your hands.

Flat stretches look like failure and usually mean consolidation. After a run of visible improvement there is a period when nothing new appears, because what you already gained is being made permanent, and permanence does not show up on any graph. Quitting during one is quitting just before the thing becomes properly yours.

When the numbers stop moving, keep the work going and change a single variable: a different drill, a slower tempo, a longer session, a rest day. Give it three more weeks before you judge anything. While you are on the flat part, count attendance instead of improvement.