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What is Progressive Resistance?

It turns out,even though I had no idea what it was,I had implemented progressive resistance into the program I invented back in 1986-87. I was just using common sense and some exercise knowledge I had from lifting weights for 14yrs while playing football, baseball, basketball, swimming, and wrestling.

Progressive resistance is when you change your workout around from time to time. When you do the same exercises, same weights, same reps, over and over again, your body adapts to that program and becomes stagnant. If you want to constantly improve, you have to constantly change your program. So how can we do this? Here are some examples:

1- Increase or decrease your weight or resistance
2- Speed up or slow down
3- Get more or less rest between sets
4- Do more or less reps

These are just a few examples, and it turns out that my program makes you do a different workout everyday! You never give your body the chance to get stagnant on the same routine everyday, every week. The reps, the sets, or the weights are changing everyday.

Let me tell you a quick story:

After watching the 2008 Olympic weightlifting on TV, I decided to do some research on some of the weightlifters. I noticed that the gold medalist at a particular weight class in the 2000 Olympics also won the gold medal in the same weight class at the 2004 Olympics. Wow! Incredible! Good for him! But I noticed something very odd. He won both gold medals by lifting the exact same weights. So this tells me that he trained everyday for 4-years and didn’t improve! You mean to tell me that his great coach and his great training facility couldn’t get him to improve? In 4 years? Give me a break! My program is designed so that you will improve every week! And not only that, but if that gold medalist was to do my program, I could have put at least 100lbs on both of his lifts in 8-weeks, and he could have repeated my program over and over again and improved every time!