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Exercise Science Principles.

‘WHAT DOESN’T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER’
(PROGRESSIVE OVERLOAD)

The General Adaptation Syndrome was popularised by Hans Selye.1 The theory proposes that when our body encounters a stressor that causes a disturbance, our body will undergo changes so we can tolerate that stressor better when exposed to it in the future.

  1. When we go for a run, our muscles demand more oxygen. Our heart rate increases to send more blood around the body.
    A long-term adaption is the thickness of our left ventricle increasing, allowing use to pump more blood with every beat.

  1. When we lift something heavy, our body has neural and structural changes that will allow us to move something bigger in the future; this might involve being able to recruit more of your muscle (motor unit recruitment) or having more contractile proteins in your muscle (hypertrophy).

In fitness, the process of adaptation is known as supercompensation.3 We often think that training makes us fitter. But, few of us consider the timeframe. For example, you may think that performing a resistance training session makes you stronger. In fact, the opposite is true. Most people would be unable to perform the same resistance training session in succession. You are actually weaker after your training bout. However, this training bout acts as a stimulus for various adaptations to take place throughout our body over the next 48 hours. The recovery period is where we make our performance gains.

Giving our body enough recovery time allows our muscles to undergo a series of adaptations leading to a new, higher baseline (approximately 48hours).

With our new, higher baseline we also need a new, higher stimulus to trigger an adaptation. We can’t use the same stressor because we have already adapted to it!

There are several different variables you can manipulate:

 

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