You’re Training Hard, But Are You Progressing?: Why Doing Everything Might Be Slowing You Down

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Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health, Diet, Fitness, Weightlifting, Barbelltraining, Strengthtraining

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🗓️ 27 May 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Are you training nearly every day—strength, cardio, HIIT—and still not seeing the results you want? In this episode of Beast Over Burden, strength coaches Niki Sims and Andrew Jackson tackle a common question: Are you progressing, or just working hard?

They break down the sneaky signs of overtraining, the truth about cardio intensity, and how recovery—not more effort—is often the bottleneck to strength, muscle, and long-term health.

💡 Key Takeaways

Training hard ≠ guaranteed progress
Doing too much can stall strength and muscle gains
Most “HIIT” is just moderate cardio—know the difference
Fat loss requires recovery-conscious training, not chaos
Are you progressing? Ask yourself… or your recovery markers
Consistency and adaptation > complexity and overexertion

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – Intro: Are you progressing, or just doing more?
01:45 – Meet the lifter who’s doing everything
04:00 – Why “HIIT” isn’t what most people think it is
07:25 – Recovery capacity vs. training volume
10:40 – Red flags that your recovery is compromised
14:15 – How to lose fat without losing muscle
18:10 – When doing less helps you gain more
22:00 – Wrap-up: Train smarter, recover harder

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0:00.0	You're listening to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic.
0:06.2	We're Nikki and Andrew, your personal, professional coaches.
0:09.0	We help you take control of your fitness through hard but doable training and nutrition practices that fit your busy life.
0:17.0	Build a stronger, healthier version of yourself with lifelong habits.
0:24.9	Hey, oh my gosh, hello everybody. Welcome to Beast Over Burden, powered by Barbell Logic. I'm your host,
0:30.9	Nikki Sims. With me is Andrew Jackson. Good morning. Good morning. So, man, we wrapped up our series and we have a little tack on here at the end where we're
0:42.1	going to do some Q&A, kind of case studies about what we've been talking about.
0:46.4	So pretty excited because these, in fact, are questions we get from real-life clients,
0:51.9	real-life situations.
0:53.7	In fact, I have a big, juicy one to start us off with.
0:57.6	Okay.
0:58.2	All right.
0:59.1	So this question came in from Ben.
1:02.2	Ben, I can tell, really likes to train.
1:04.8	He really likes to work out.
1:06.1	So he's been resistance training three to four times a week.
1:10.3	Seems like he dials that up or down
1:12.6	based on life circumstances. He's in his 40s, got some toddlers. And he has added on other activities,
1:20.2	including five to six sessions a week of hit and slow steady zone too. Yeah. So he will train in the morning and then he will do some
1:32.3	cardio or slash conditioning later in the day. But he looks like he's doing activity almost seven days a
1:38.9	week. He likes the progress that he's getting. He's been able to tell that he's been getting stronger by being able to do more reps,
1:47.6	being able to do more weight.
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