Stalemating

What exactly does stalemating do to you? It seems like every time i use ap to increase my stats I have to move backwards instead of out further when hunting anymore. Why am I having to go backwards to prevent myself from stalemating.And what does stalemating do? cause it says I still won the battle, and it says I still got my blood gained

Within the last two and a half weeks, I've had to move back ten spaces to not stalemate as much. Even though I've trained my endurance more. My stamina drains down faster, when prior to the time frame, it hardly went down at all. And I've increased my hunting levels; But to no avail, I have to stay put.
My hunting level is 209,
And I'm at location 608.

you can always flee and hunt over again when stuck.

And I swear, I'm not getting as many souls per hunting session as i used to Is anyone else having hunting issues?

Not on my end, I got 74 last wk and barely hunted at all