Overload Your Muscles if you want to keep growing !! Strength training uses resistance to break muscles down. Thankfully, our muscles respond to this training by growing back bigger and stronger. But, there will come a time when the same-old-same won’t cut it. That’s because our muscles and body adapt to exercises and the weights that we use. To keep results coming, it’s important to understand the principle of progressive overload. Progressive overload says that we have to continually vary the amount and type of stress or resistance we’re applying to our muscles. You could keep adding weight to the bar, but at some point you’ll reach the maximum amount of weight you can lift. At that point, you’ll have to come up with other ways to vary your workouts. What do you do to mix it up ??
Posted on: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 21:37:55 +0000
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