If your gym goals include building muscle or strength, progressive overload training should be your priority. After all, if your muscles aren’t being challenged, they can’t adapt, grow or get stronger ...

In other words, progressive overload is a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation. As you get stronger, your workouts need to get ...

Progressive overload is the process of making a workout more challenging over time. Resistance and strength training cause microscopic damage to muscle fibers. As they heal, muscles get stronger and ...

POPSUGAR spoke with Chad Barribeau, CSCS, of D1 Training to gather everything you need to know about what progressive overload is, including how to incorporate it into your training.

As you get stronger, you become able to lift heavier and heavier weights. That much is probably obvious. But what beginners sometimes miss is that it’s a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation: You become ...