Welcome to the Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, Board certified Natural Doctor,

and today we're going to go over your questions related to health, fitness, and training.

Today's first question is, how do you know when to increase weights?

So basically, whether it's a cable machine, band strength,

tensile strength there, whether you are using a bar belt,

any of those things is you're increasing weight to hopefully

provide a little bit more stimulus on your body so that your body is forced to

change. That's the real reason why you go up in weight. You don't go up in

weight to just go up in weight for the sake of going up and

wait. It's a principle called the said principle, specific adaptation to

impose demands. You probably heard me say that before, but what it means is that

if you want your body to change, you need to give it a reason to change.

You need to give it a reason to change.

That means you need to eat different foods

and you need to exercise differently.

You can't keep doing the same exercise you're doing right now

and expect a different result.

Your programs need to change every four to six weeks and you have to constantly, not every

workout, not every week, but you have to create a different stimulus on the body

and typically that means increasing weight.

Now for women, that doesn't mean you're going to increase weight

and all of a sudden start bulking up,

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