Progressive overload is the gradual increase of stress placed upon the body during exercise training. This principle refers to continually increasing the demands on the musculoskeletal system in order to continually make gains in muscle size, strength, and endurance.
In simplest terms, in order to get bigger, stronger, and leaner, you must continuously strive to lift more weight or add more volume, thereby making your muscles work harder than they are used to. If you don't, you will simply not improve.
Take a look at your calves. You walk on them every day. Do they change? No! Why? Because they carry the same weight all the time (you).
Therefore there is no need for adaptation and your body leaves things as they are. We all know someone who goes to the gym for years on end without getting anywhere. In nine out of ten cases, the overload principle was violated.
We have our SLPP method to prevent that from happening. The actual program is broken up as follows:
- Monday: weights (whole body)
- Tuesday: cardio
- Wednesday: weights (whole body)
- Thursday cardio
- Friday: weights (whole body)
