Getting Off Your Fitness Plateau with Progressive Overload

Embrace Your Real

Julie Ledbetter

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

5.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Hey sister, are you stuck on a fitness plateau?

You know I'm the biggest advocate for honoring your body with movement daily. It's so great for both your mental and physical health. But if you want to take your results to the next level and change your body composition, it's going to take a little bit more than just movement. It's going to take some progressive overload.

A plateau happens with your fitness because you are repeating the same demands week in and week out. When you do this, your body adapts. Progressive overload is this simple principle that involves continually increasing the demands you place on your muscles to ensure you are continually making progress with muscle growth, fat loss, strength, and endurance. Essentially, in order to continually see results and get over your plateau, you must continually make your muscles work harder than they're used to working.

So if you work out regularly, or honor your body with movement regularly, and are stuck on a plateau, this episode is for you!

If you loved this episode, you will also love…

Episode 19: How Much Weight Should You Be Lifting?

And be sure to follow the podcast on the 'gram, @embraceyourreal, for a daily dose of real talk!

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey there beautiful human you're listening to Embrace your real with me Julie Ledbetter a
0:05.4	podcast where I empower you to just be you with each episode I dish you a dose of
0:10.8	real talk and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self.
0:18.0	Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real, let's get it, let's go. Hello hello hello welcome back. I am so excited about this topic. Let's chat
0:39.3	about building the body you want and getting over a plateau. You know if you follow me that honoring
0:45.9	my body daily is a huge part of my life, but when you have goals and you're wanting to build
0:51.0	the body that you want and have serious goals,
0:54.1	whether it's strength goals, distance goals, whatever your choice of movement is.
0:59.5	At some point you're going to have to step up the game otherwise it's just natural that you
1:04.6	will plateau and I don't know about you but to me being stuck on a plateau is
1:09.7	literally one of the most annoying things in the world.
1:13.0	So if you work out regularly, if you honor your body with movement regularly,
1:17.3	and you just feel like you're stuck in a plateau,
1:20.4	I want to introduce you to progressive overload if you've never heard about it.
1:24.0	So let's dive into the episode about Progressive Overload.
1:29.0	Before I do, I have to share this super sweet review of the day. It comes from Chris Marie
1:34.3	Ef. She says love it so uplifting I'm new to listening to these podcasts I
1:38.8	started listening to Julie the other day I was actually recommended on another channel which brought up Julie's.
1:44.2	I thought, what the heck, and I clicked on her podcast and started listening and instantly
1:47.9	loved her topics and she's just so inspirational and uplifting to listen to.
1:52.4	I believe I just finished episode 59. It was about the foods you are consuming if it's helping or hurting. I am on day two of no caffeine
2:00.4	due to the way that it makes me feel and this episode just clicked with me.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Julie Ledbetter, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Julie Ledbetter and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.