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A little on ✨ progressive overload ✨ and how you can incorporate it into your gym routine! ⤵️

Whether you want to lose weight, gain muscle, get stronger, better your performance… if you have a goal, progressive overload should be your focus.

The groundwork for understanding progressive overload focuses in on the first 8 letters: progress. While it’s a simple concept, there are plenty of ways to incorporate POL.

The ones listed in today’s post are load based, which will ultimately help you get stronger, build muscle and even perform the movements better over time.

However, there are also forms of POL that will help you in other categories and encourage long term, consistent gains. These are things such as increasing ROM, bettering technique, manipulating break/exercise time, or increasing frequency.

My advice is to look at your goal and choose 1-2 areas to focus on and incorporate POL. My current focus is increasing load and range of motion!

If you want to read more about what POL is, the many types, and how to incorporate it based on your goals, check out last weeks blog. Link in bio.

Much love 🤍🌱