In this week's episode of the Discover Strength Podcast, I had the chance to sit down with Ph.D. candidate Daniel Plotkin. Daniel received his Master's from the world-renowned exercise science lab at Lehman College in New York, under the instruction of Dr. Brad Schoenfeld. Daniel is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at one of the premier physiology labs in the world at Auburn University under Dr. Michael Roberts.

We were lucky enough to have Daniel join us this week to discuss a paper he spearheaded for his Master's thesis on progressive overload. Our listeners will be familiar with this term which typically means incremental increases in weight, reps, or both from workout to workout. Daniel's thesis focused on another less common means of overloading the musculature: simply increasing reps, each and every workout.

Subjects in his study completed lower body training either progressing in a traditional fashion (keeping the rep range the same, or increasing load after completing beyond that range) or keeping the weight the same the entire study period and simply trying to perform more reps each time they exercised.

This program of progressive overload without progressing the load is another great reminder that rep range and weight are not nearly as important for increases in strength and hypertrophy, as simply working with a high level of intensity. Daniel and I discuss the takeaways from this paper, its implications for your own training, and what else we can expect from him in the future.

We know you'll enjoy this episode on progressive overload without progressing the load, and we look forward to having Daniel back on the podcast in the future.

Paper HERE

Check out Daniel's other published work HERE

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