You MUST Improve Performance To Gain SIZE 

Progressive overload for the win

Isn’t it just common sense and obvious that to get bigger one needs to get stronger? Isn’t the problem for most people quite another, that they overestimate their sustainable rate of strength gain. They think they need to get strong fast and run into plateaus. They get into a peaked state from which it’s impossible to further improve. They try harder and harder but the inevitable happens, their strength goes down. With nobody telling them to progress more slowly with weights and reps, they typically try the same approach again: breaking the plateau with a massive effort and soon run into the same issue. When every little step on the strength ladder comes with massive mental and physical stress and frequent disappointments we can guess what happens next… I have never talked to a young guy in a gym who doesn’t try to improve performance. A funny idea actually to imagine such trainee. The real problem is the constant hearing of and thinking about progressive overload that often causes the crash of the fitness journey.