One of the biggest hits against resistance (strength) training is that it can be perceived as boring and tedious. This can be a result of doing the same exercise, with the same weight, on the same day ...

In other words, progressive overload is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. As you get stronger, your workouts need to get harder to keep up. But in a sense you are also becoming stronger because ...

There's a lot of gym jargon out there — including the phrase "progressive overload." Maybe you've read about progressive overload in workout plans, come across info about it from a fitness ...

For the body to become stronger during strength training, muscles must be exposed to increasingly higher resistance to stimulate them. This is the only way they can grow. The best results are achieved ...

Correspondence to Ciaran Fairman, Exercise and Behavioral Medicine Laboratory, Kinesiology, The Ohio State University, 305 W 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 43201, USA; Fairman.13{at}osu.edu Objectives The ...

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