An indispensable aspect of progression comes via infusing the Overload principle into every nook and cranny of your training. In order to stimulate muscle and strength gains, your training must gradually become more difficult over time. This seems intuitive — but in practice, many things can push-and-pull the focus of

From the outside looking in, training can seem like the most simple thing in the world — just repeatedly lift things up and put them down. But when you start to zoom in, a previously invisible world of richness, complexity, and abstract beauty fills the aperture. Much like our own

A specific warm-up will constitute any work that bridges the gap between the general warm-up and the working sets.  This may be present in your program as neurologically based movements (such as single leg hip thrusts before RDLs) or even pre-exhausting movements before your first heavy compound exercises (like leg