Training Progression

How To Plan Strength Training Progression

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How long have you been on your current program?
Are you doing the same reps and weight as you were a month ago, a year ago?

Take a look around your local gym or fitness center and you will notice many are doing the exact same thing and why the last time you saw them, and chances are they were doing the same thing the time before that and the time before that.

In order to see results either fat loss or muscle building there has to be a change in the stimulus. Over time there has to be a greater demand placed on the body, or a progressive overload.

Progressive overload is essential to training. Your body quickly adapts to resistance or weight training and before long your body will not respond to current stimulus.

There are many ways you can develop a training program that will implement the principles of progressive overloads. One way and maybe the most common is to simply increase the weights. While this method is simple and common it is not always practical. You're currently using 10 pound dumbbells and jumped to 15 pounds that may be too much, and you may not be able to lift the weight.

The second issue that comes from increasing weights is that the weight will add up quicker than your ability to move it. If you add just 5 pounds a week to say your squat, by the end of the year you're looking at about 250 pounds more than where you started. That's not realistic!

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