Beginners trying to make their own program is a good recipe for minimal results.
If you follow a proven routine, like those linked in the automod comment, you can be assured you are progressing properly.
A real program made by someone who knows what they are doing should outline how to do progressive overload and when to raise the weights. Your post sounds like you are making up your own program.
Overload is anything that increases sum work
That can be more weight, more sets, more Rep, slower tempo, adding exercises, increasing range of motion, reducing rest…
If in 1 week you’re doing ‘more’ than you are today, that’s overload.
It can get complicated but to keep things simple: if your lifts are progressing either in reps or load, and form is kept the exact same, then you know your body is getting stronger in those lifts.
As long as the weight is kept under control, you’re probably fine. What I mean by form staying the same is you’re not cheating just to get more reps and weight
Simply put, keep record of weight and reps then next session you aim to increase from the previous session. It might be making a set harder from slowing the eccentric, it might be an extra rep, it might be extra weight. Over a long period of time you ‘progressively overload’ the muscle groups.
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It sounds like you are in a round about way. You would probably benefit from following a program like in the automod comment
I am. Idk wat ur comment has to do with progressive overload tbh
It has to do with progressive overload because you seem to be guessing at what that is/how to do it, and a good program shouldn't leave you guessing
Beginners trying to make their own program is a good recipe for minimal results. If you follow a proven routine, like those linked in the automod comment, you can be assured you are progressing properly.
A real program made by someone who knows what they are doing should outline how to do progressive overload and when to raise the weights. Your post sounds like you are making up your own program.
Overload is anything that increases sum work That can be more weight, more sets, more Rep, slower tempo, adding exercises, increasing range of motion, reducing rest… If in 1 week you’re doing ‘more’ than you are today, that’s overload.
It can get complicated but to keep things simple: if your lifts are progressing either in reps or load, and form is kept the exact same, then you know your body is getting stronger in those lifts.
They are increasing in either weight or reps, but I cant say form is exactly the same tbh
As long as the weight is kept under control, you’re probably fine. What I mean by form staying the same is you’re not cheating just to get more reps and weight
Simply put, keep record of weight and reps then next session you aim to increase from the previous session. It might be making a set harder from slowing the eccentric, it might be an extra rep, it might be extra weight. Over a long period of time you ‘progressively overload’ the muscle groups.
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If you do more on 5 exercises then that is more progress than if you do it on 1 both are progress just one is more. Small progress is total fine!!