Progressive overload is a simple idea that most people apply badly. Adding weight every session is not progression — it is a countdown to a stall.
The lifters who improve fastest in Strength Camp are almost never the ones lifting the most on day one. They are the ones who earned each jump and can prove it from their log book.
Work in Blocks, Not Sessions
Hold a load until the movement is clean at the top of your rep range, then step up. A block gives your tendons and technique time to catch up with your enthusiasm, which is usually what breaks first.
"If you are not logging it, you are guessing."
Write down the load, the reps and how the last set felt. Three weeks later that note is the difference between a confident jump and a session you spend re-testing what you already knew.
Four Rules Worth Keeping
- Earn the jump: add load only once every rep in the range is clean.
- Change one variable at a time — load, reps or tempo, never all three.
- Leave one rep in reserve on everything that is not a tested max.
Every Strength Camp block finishes with a re-test week. Bring your log and a coach will build the next block around what it actually shows.
