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Iron Culture

Ep. 26 - How Progressive Overload Actually Works

Iron Culture

The MASS Crew

Sports & Recreation, Health & Fitness

4.8827 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Brian Minor, MS, pro natural bodybuilder and national level USAPL raw powerlifter, is not only an impressive dual-sport strength and physique athlete, but he’s also top of the bodybuilding and Powerlifting coaching game. As a thought leader in the evidence-based strength and physique community, he does an excellent job putting context and application to theory to help move practice forward. Join us in this episode as we get into the nitty-gritty of what progressive overload really means with Brian, and how it’s often misunderstood.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We have, there is a guest today who is called Brian Minor, but there's nothing minor about him.

0:05.5

No, sir.

0:06.0

Some would say he's Brian Major.

0:07.6

Yeah, I think he majors in the majors.

0:09.3

Yeah, majors in the majors.

0:10.4

Or Brian Dominant, if we're going by chords, I turn to a complete loser in this episode,

0:15.7

and I just keep making musical references that have no place, but just because his name's minor, I'm like, you know,

0:21.7

I can't, my brain can't not think that way. Yeah, there's, there's times I'm blown away and

0:27.9

truly respect your intellectual prowess and the depth of your knowledge. This episode's not one

0:33.2

of them. No, it's just, it's like that episode of Up where the dog says like squirrel.

0:39.8

That's just me with the musical references where my brain can't shut it off.

0:42.6

So he's talking about progressive overload, a really nuanced conversation about how to approach

0:47.1

training.

0:47.8

And I'm just like creating chord structures in my head.

0:50.7

Yeah.

0:50.9

So the good news about this episode is it will really give you that contextual interference that actually has been shown to increase BDNF, which is brain-derived neurotropic factor, which is when you're trying to think about one thing, but you're distracted by it.

1:04.0

Like Omar talking about cords and me telling you about BDNF, when we're actually trying to be talking about progressive overload of Brian Minor, you're very much lost.

1:11.6

But hey, don't worry, it's going to make you smarter.

1:14.1

Just like this episode where Brian Miner breaks down the true meaning of progressive overload,

1:18.8

how we often get it wrong.

1:19.9

Yes.

1:20.5

And then we actually have a kind of a cool dovetail to talk about how powerlifting training has evolved

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