Understanding Progressive Overload

Progressive Overload-  Progressive Overload is the concept that if you want to progress, you have to overload the muscles.It’s not just about the calories used, it is about what happens in the muscle at a microcellular level. In order for muscle adaptation to take place for sub-cellular change, the muscles have to be stressed.  Once your muscles adapt to certain stimuli, you have to change up what you’re doing (i.e. increase the weight, increase the incline on treadmill). You can’t just keep doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to get better results.  Understandably, your limits can only go so far (there is such thing as overtraining too).  This is not only true with muscles, but with bone too.  If you want to increase bone density, you have to stress the bones just hard enough to have physiological change as well (readWolff’s Law).  It’s because of the stresses that the cells in your body become stronger and more efficient. ~KHuggins