Emily Linnell | Women’s Body Recomp Coach

…And if you are and not a beginner (training <1year) there’s a good chance you were under-training before… 😅

I’ve been chatting to a few of my clients about this in check in’s this week and figured this would help some of you guys too.

Once you reach an intermediate level, progress slowwwwwws. Not because things have stopped working, but because adaptations now happen in teeny tiny fractions, not leaps.

At this stage, week to week performance is often influenced far more by sleep, stress, work, hormones and general life load than by actual adaptations (changes in muscle mass or strength).

So if you hit 10 reps last week and 8 or 9 this week? No drama, at all. Totally normal in fact! Those reps taken close to failure are STILL a growth stimulus. It’s the proximity to failure that matters, not an arbitrary number of repetitions.

Add in the fact that learning a movement, improving technique, or simply showing up with better intent can improve performance without any physical change at all and suddenly the obsession with weekly PB’s makes even less sense.

Progressive overload doesn’t mean more every week, it happens when your body is ready.

You provide the stimulus (training hard) and the adaptations will come. But expecting a weekly increase on every lift is sadly, a fools errand. Once you’re out of the newbie gains realm, “progress” in the form of more reps and/or weight is much, much harder to come by

If you want my (free) guide on how to train to build your best physique, message me “TRAIN” & I’ll send it right over 💪🏽

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