Strategic progression in your workouts is the missing link between training hard and achieving real, long-term muscle growth.

If your gym goals include building muscle or strength, progressive overload training should be your priority. After all, if your muscles aren’t being challenged, they can’t adapt, grow or get stronger ...

Whether you love lifting weights or are just getting started with resistance bands, continuously (and gently) challenging yourself can help you succeed. One way to do this is to use the concept of ...

As you get stronger, you become able to lift heavier and heavier weights. That much is probably obvious. But what beginners sometimes miss is that it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation: You become ...

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This series has focused on training load and related concepts and their implications for firefighter fitness. Firefighting requires exceptional physical and mental endurance. Now let’s take a quick ...

You’ve probably heard the term progressive overload thrown around in conversation, or read about it online, particularly when it comes to building muscle and getting stronger. At T3, we’re constantly ...

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What is progressive overload? According to a 2002 article in Current Sports Medicine Reports, the term refers to a type of resistance training that works by gradually increasing the amount of stress ...