Being stuck in a plateau comes from 2 main causes:
Your skillset isn’t broad enough to progress or;
Your approach to climbing is wrong
Your approach has been great to get you to where you are, but if you want to grow from where you are then your approach needs to change too. There’s an old saying, Do What You Have Always Done and You Will Get What You Have Always Gotten.
A little focus goes a long way
The beautiful thing about this is if you have never done any specific skill work you will only need to spend a small amount of focused energy to kick start progress again. The best way to do this is to start to use your warm ups to focus on new skills. For example if you climb with sloppy footwork or slip all the time you can warm up on the wall by watching your feet constantly. Place them accurately and ensure they are weighted so they don’t slip. The added bonus to this is you are already spending that time warming up, so you don’t have to commit any extra time to learning a new skill.
How could your approach be improved?
Most of the time this is improving the quality of your rest. Check the time when you fall or drop off the wall and rest 3, 5 or even 10 minutes between attempts if you need.
Spend more time focusing on 1 or 2 climbs, don’t climb hop. Give at least 6 attempts to a project without progress before moving on (Unless you feel particularly sore or in danger on moves). If you make progress, your 6 attempts resets.
Don’t start from the start every time. Starting from the start is tiring. Once you have done a move a couple of times there's not much point in repeating it until you have done all the moves, focus your time on the moves you haven't done or are the most stuck on.
Work the moves after the one you are stuck on, get more hard moves locked down.
Try different techniques, twist more or less, use more momentum or less, think about the precision of your hand and foot placement
Good luck sending those hard moves and projects!
