Easy Fitness #1, The Fitness Holy Grail
Making Fitness Easy
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You've joined a new gym or started a new routine and after weeks or months of noticeable results, you stop making progress. Does that sound familiar?
You’ve no doubt run into a phenomenon commonly referred to as the Fitness Plateau.
If you’re new to working out, just about any workout program will show great results…for a while. Your untrained body will respond to any physical stimulus, letting you jump from exercise to exercise without any rhyme or reason and still see gains.
But eventually you will hit a wall.
If you don’t transition to a more structured program, you’ll quickly fall into a Groundhog Day loop of doing the same workout each week, stalling your progress and limiting your gains.
Fortunately, there is one easy path to keep moving forward - Progressive Overload. In fitness circles, the concept of Progressive Overload is rightly called ‘the Holy Grail’ of developing muscle and strength.
The beauty of Progressive Overload is its simplicity. It just requires adding more weight to the bar or increasing the number of reps over time. That’s it.
If you systematically increase the demand placed on your body, you are guaranteed to get bigger and stronger. Stick to a few major exercises (such as bench press, deadlift, and squat), and start adding weight to the bar. It won’t happen in one night (nothing is that easy!), but over a period of months and years the progress you make will be shocking.
Stop spinning your wheels. Add weight.