Welcome to Season 2 and Episode 32 of the Movement Logic podcast! In this episode, Laurel discusses a topic that is important but poorly understood—training volume. Too much too soon leads to pain, injury, and burnout. Too little too late leads to frustrating plateaus and boredom. It’s important to understand volume, as well as its relationship to load, progressive loading, and changing up our strength training routine with well-timed variety. In this episode, Laurel also discusses:

• The concept of load is not new to folks interested in strength training, but the concept of volume may be.
• Why understanding volume is important for beginners who end up doing too much too soon and more advanced lifters who plateau and don’t know why.
• How understanding load and volume can ensure we’ve allowed adequate time to recover.
• What intensity is and the difference between intensity of load and intensity of effort.
• What fatigue is and what it isn’t.
• What volume is and how it’s defined.
• What work capacity is—how it’s like a sink—and how it’s a bigger topic than strength.
• The role variety plays in keeping our body responsive to a strength stimulus so we can continue driving adaptations toward increased strength and work capacity.

Episode 29: Pink Dumbbells and the Shrinking Female Body

A 1RM chart to determine intensity of load

The Science of Autoregulation, on strongerbyscience.com all about measuring intensity of effort using RPE and reps in reserve

How to Increase Work Capacity and Bust Through Plateaus, by Greg Nuckols on strongerbyscience.com

What is Training Volume? by Chris Beardsley

Strength Training Frequency, by Paul Ingraham

Episode 9: What Are the Best Exercises for Strength?

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