Strength Training-Frequency and Workload.

[arod1]

but I found out what was halting my progress. The problem was that my weekly workload wasn't high enough. Sets and reps weren't that important, because no matter how I mixed and matched, I was doing no more work from one week to the next. Workload is very important for an advanced/experienced lifter to continue making progress.

How do you calculate your total workload?

Is it like this?

Bench 3x5 200# Total workload = 3000#

 

[Tom Treutlein]

It's kind've self-explainatory. The intensity of work being done. Work load can probably be best summed up as the combination of volume, frequency, intensity, and speed. Just how much work you do. There needs to be an increase in workload to provide a solid stimulus to produce growth.