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GUEST SERIES | Dr. Andy Galpin: Optimize Your Training Program for Fitness & Longevity
Huberman Lab
How to Increase Progressive Overload
In the case of lifting, all you have to do is take the amount of repetitions you're doing per set and multiply it by the sets. The typical strategy I would recommend here is increasing load or intensity or a little bit of a combination slowly for about six or so weeks then taking what we generally call a D load. So if you get these little D loads every depending on what you're doing four to eight weeks or so, you should be in a spot where you can continually progress for a very long time without either burning out or overloading.
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