An Introduction to Progressive Overload: Siobhan Milner's Minis

Total Performance with Siobhan Milner

Are you someone who identifies as being injury prone? Have you given consideration to how you progress in your training?

Today is the first episode of a series that will run throughout the podcast which are shorter solo episodes where I dive deeper into a particular topic. I am super excited to get into the nitty-gritty so that we can all progress with intention and (hopefully!) with less risk of injury. If you have a topic you want me to dig deeper into then please let me know over on Instagram, or shoot me an email.

In this episode, I am talking about a concept from exercise science called progressive overload. This principle involves gradually increasing the stress placed on the body. Our bodies are resilient and adaptable, so they respond to the right amount of stress placed on them. And I think we know this at least somewhat intuitively because we know that all kinds of training are hard, and we adapt to that challenge!

The issues arise when you've sustained a super short, sharp increase in training load, and it's just been too much at once for the body, sometimes resulting in pain or injury. So how can we implement progressive overload in our training? Take a listen and I'll introduce you to this concept!

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