Hi Warriors! Hope you are well. Today I’ve got a little ditty about how to determine strength training overload. I’ve written a bit about it here on MMW and one quick Google search on the topic will have you quickly overwhelmed. So I wanted to throw a quick video together on the topic!

I could write pages on this topic and not even scratch the surface. It would also be extremely long and very confusing. Sometimes it is simpler to just talk it out. The video covers the very basics of determining how much you should be doing from a strength training standpoint.

Obviously, the more complex your goal the more complicated strength training might need to be. For my athletes out there, there is constant discussion about what phase of training you are actually in, in addition to what your individual body needs. For those of you out there who are trying for body recompositon and want to know if you should cut or bulk first, well, just know there are as many correct answers as there are exercisers.

Ultimately what works for someone else may not work for you. Either from a physiology standpoint or a lifestyle standpoint. The need to understand the overload variables and how they interact to produce change is important.

Overload is basically doing more than you have done before. And in strength training land, we quantify that in three ways. Frequency, intensity, and volume of training. Frequency being how many days per week a given muscle is stressed. Intensity being how hard the stress is. And volume being how much work is actually done.

Your own individual goal should be what guides your decision about which of these variable to emphasize. Just remember that different goals require different inputs.