30/07/2021
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Someone in my Q&A yesterday asked me to expand on why progressive overload is so important.
I’ve spoken about about it ad infinitum in regard to strength training.
And I’m more than happy to continue discussing why it’s so important for strength and muscle growth.
But as I was thinking about how to answer their question, I realized progressive overload is essential for, literally, anything and everything you want to improve in life.
Want to get better at public speaking? Start speaking in public more. Begin with smaller groups and progress to larger crowds more frequently.
Want to get better at entrepreneurship? Start with one small start-up. Build it from the ground up. Progress to two. So on and so forth until you progressively reach a point in which you can oversee and manage far more than you could when you first started.
Want to get stronger? Start by going to the gym. Lifting weights. Learning the technique. And progressively challenge yourself to lift heavier and with better technique until one day you’re easily repping weights you used to think would be impossible for you.
Progressive overload is so important because it’s the only way you can improve in life. Not just weight lifting.
If you want to get better at, literally, anything you need to embrace progressive overload.
You need to understand tremendous amounts of effort and discomfort are required in order to reach your full potential.
And you need to internalize the process of reaching your potential won’t happen overnight. It’s going to take years and years and years of slow, steady, and progressive improvements over time.
That’s why progressive overload is so important.
Not just because it’s essential for getting stronger.
But because it’s essential for living your best life.