What is going on, guys?

Welcome back to another episode of the Eric Roberts Fitness podcast.

I hope that you were having a great day thus far.

In this episode today, we're going to get a little bit nerdy on program design, how to set up your workouts, how to design your

workouts to see the most progress from your workouts. Whether you are a super advanced trainee,

whether you're somebody who's just kind of getting into the gym looking to lose a bit of body

fat, either way, this podcast is going to help you program your workouts to

see better results. Because no matter where you are, I know you don't want to waste your time

doing workouts that are not going to yield you the results that you want to get. So,

specifically in this podcast, we're going to talk about how to set up something called periodization.

And essentially, if you don't know what periodization means, it's essentially just a systematic approach to kind of structuring your workouts to maximize progress and prevent plateaus.

And within this periodization, we can manage things like, we can manage training variables

like volume, for example.

So volume is just like how many sets you're doing throughout the week, how many reps you're

doing throughout the course of a workout, those sort of things.

We can manage training variables like intensity, like how hard are you pushing yourself how close are you

pushing a failure how heavy are you lifting um how frequently you are training your muscle groups

how frequently you're training throughout the course of the week and and we kind of play with these

variables and tweak these variables again to optimize the adaptation over time. And again,

adaptation just means the progress you see over time. Because remember, when you work out, you provide

a stress to your body. Your body then adapts to that stress, and that's how you see progress. So we're

changing some of these variables to make

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