In this week’s CHALK TALK, we discuss the concept of Progressive Overload and what that means in your training. 

This is an important concept to understand because whether you’re an athlete following a program that’s been written for you, or your an S&C coach writing that program, it’s imperative that you understand why things change in the program the way they do. From a physiological standpoint, there needs to be intentional and gradual fluctuations in volume and intensity in order to expose the body to a new stimulus that it needs to adapt to. The timing of these adaptations vary, and it’s important to understand that context is VERY important when discussing this, so for the sake of this CHALK TALK, everything shared is in a general sense. 

In order to continuously work towards your training goals, you need to progressively challenge yourself in different ways. This could be a matter of adding an additional set, adding an additional training session, or increasing the weight on a particular exercise - the human body is incredibly smart, so it doesn’t take much!

If you need support with your training goals and want to follow an intentional and progressive plan, you can check out the Personalized Performance Programming, or if you are a coach/trainer/practitioner and you’re looking for continuing education in the programming space, check out the Coaching Foundations Course, or the Practical Programming Course in the School of TRAINING2XL.

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