progressive overload

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0:00 Intro
0:45 Hypertrophy 101 recap
3:05 Hypertrophy app release
4:18 How to pick exercises
5:45 What's good technique
8:43 How much load
14:55 How to judge reps in reserve
19:11 Recovering for the next workout
23:23 Heavy compound lifts or machines
25:03 How do you progress
28:37 Why do we deload

Brett Jones is the Director of Education at Strong First. For every article suggesting one-per-week heavy lifts there's another advocating daily top end strength work. Today we get to hear the opinion of Brett, a man who has spent most of his life working out how to make people strong. - Extra Stuff: Check out Strong First - https://www.strongfirst.com Check out everything I recommend from books to products and help support the podcast at no extra cost to you by shopping through this link - https://www.amazon.co.uk/shop/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices