Apply Progressive Overload to Your Weight Training Regime

Progressive Overload Training

You can jump from program to program in the hope of finding the magic bullet of muscle building. However, if you make no attempt to progressively overload (lift heavier weights, finish more repetitions or run for further or faster, for example), you won't raise your fitness level, because sarcoplasmic hypertrophy needs increased stimulation.

When planning a fat burning and muscle building program, it is vital to determine the areas that you need to enhance. Then you have to figure out the type of overload required to realize those goals. The following forms of overload are used to bring about improvements in size and strength:

• Levels of Resistance: The degree of resistance is normally progressively increased by utilizing more weight and applying greater force. A good example might be to add a few more weights on the bar when doing the Incline Smith Machine Bench Press or, when doing the Bodyweight Lunge, hold a pair of dumbbells and then progressively use more weight.
• Rest Periods: The rest intervals taken between bouts of physical effort, like sets of body building movements, is cut down.
• Volume of Work Undertaken: usually means the quantity of exercising accomplished possibly throughout an individual weight training workout, or as part of an individual training period.