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Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

#137 // Progressive Overload: A Complete Guide

Fitness Stuff (for normal people)

Tony and Marianna

Health & Fitness

4.9644 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Progressive overload is a highly requested topic for Marianna and Tony to cover and today they are bringing the heat! Progressive overload is the single most important aspect of workouts. Tune in to Fitness Stuff for Normal People as your hosts provide 10 different ways you can implement progressive overload into your workouts!


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Time Stamps:

(8:50) Working Out vs. Training

(10:21) What is progressive overload?

(16:07) What it's not

(18:51) 10 different ways to implement progressive overload into your workouts

(41:52) Specific examples

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the fitness stuff for normal people podcast.

0:03.6

Let's be real, the fitness industry, it kind of sucks.

0:07.0

It really sucks.

0:07.7

And we just want to make it suck less.

0:10.0

We're not just another fitness podcast following every single new trend that pops up and

0:14.0

is gone by the end of the month.

0:16.9

Our goal is to actually give you the knowledge and tools that you need so you have the

0:20.5

confidence to apply the best possible training into your own life.

0:24.6

Where today, 10 is a good number.

0:27.6

In bowling, there are 10 pins.

0:29.6

In string theory, there are 10 different dimensions that you and I exist in.

0:33.6

And if you combine an octopus's eight legs with a squid's extra two tentacles, you've got a total of 10 limbs.

0:39.9

But today, we're going to be breaking down 10 different ways you can implement progressive overload into your workouts right now.

0:49.3

How long did it take you to come up with that? I could just picture you like in your office. Like, all right.

1:00.2

Progressive overload being the single most important aspect of your workouts and is the one thing that actually determines whether or not you're making progress

1:04.9

in the first place, getting bigger or getting stronger. And most people think that all it is

1:10.2

simply lifting heavier weights over time,

1:12.5

which is one way, but far from the only way.

1:15.9

And if you just try lifting heavier weights every time you go into the gym,

1:18.8

it's only a matter of weeks until what you just can't anymore.

1:22.8

And then what?

1:23.8

Today is the most important episode we've done if you lift weights.

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