#453: What Is Progressive Overload and Why Should You Care?
The Jay Ferruggia Show
Jay Ferruggia
4.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Progressive overload is the key to getting the results you desire in the gym and actually changing your physique.
But what exactly does that mean?
And what's the best way to go about it?
I've got you covered on all of that, and much more, in today's Q&A.
Questions answered include:
- What's the foundation for successful training? [2:51]
- Should your training method be based on your chronological or training age? [12:49]
- How can you ensure you're avoiding injuries and not crushing your CNS? [13:55]
- Are protein and carbs necessary post-workout? [17:13]
- Should you manipulate carbs and fats on cardio days? [20:10]
- Is it possible to build bigger delts without destroying your joints? [22:20]
- What to do if you can't front squat? [26:37]
- My Top-5 wrestlers of all-time? [27:35]
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| 0:00.0 | What's up guys, Renegade Trankshow, Jay Furugia, back in the house, here to help you |
| 0:15.7 | unleash your stronger self. |
| 0:16.9 | It is hard to overstate how important magnesium is for all aspects of our health, everyone |
| 0:20.7 | now talks about it, Dr. Hyman, Andrew Huberman, you name it as long list of symptoms and diseases |
| 0:26.4 | that can be eased or even treated with magnesium. |
| 0:28.5 | In fact, way back, magnesium was a critical element, doctors used it for all kinds of |
| 0:32.3 | conditions from arrhythmia to constipation to pre-clampsia, even seizures. |
| 0:37.5 | For some reason, now doctors use it as a last resort and put patients on high dose of magnesium |
| 0:41.1 | if they are sick or at risk of premature labor, seizure or very serious conditions. |
| 0:48.0 | But it's essential to your health and your well-being, it's a huge problem because magnesium |
| 0:51.5 | deficiency can increase your risk of all diseases and keep you from performing optimally. |
| 0:56.4 | We shouldn't have to wait until we're magnesium deficient. |
| 0:59.0 | Even more critically, there's not just one type of magnesium, there are seven different |
| 1:03.1 | types that we need in order to ensure our health and our vitality and remain strong into |
| 1:08.5 | old age. |
| 1:09.5 | Now I'm normally a big advocate of getting as many of our nutrients as possible through |
| 1:13.1 | a well-balanced diet. |
| 1:14.7 | It would just be perfect if you could do that, but this is not the case, it's almost impossible |
| 1:18.8 | to get enough magnesium taken through your food alone because our soil is so overworked |
| 1:22.7 | and mineral depleted and lacking organic matter, which helps the plants get the minerals |
| 1:28.9 | from the soil. |
| 1:29.9 | I read anywhere that if 10 years ago we needed to eat one orange, now we need to eat 10 |
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