Build muscle with progressive overload

This could probably be called your backbone to build muscle mass. Progressive overload basically means to put constant unaccustomed stress to your muscles. You might have heard someone talk about mixing it up with high and low intensity phases. Well…How will your muscles grow with low intensity phases? How will your muscles grow if you don’t give them a reason to grow? They won’t. To build muscle you need to hurt your muscles to the point of avoiding injury, which will make small tares in their microfibers and force the muscles to use the most amount of fibers in it. Your muscles will then be actually “worried” and say “Holy c*ap what was that?!”. This is what gives true potential to your muscles to become bigger and stronger for the next session. Since you put them through something they haven’t experienced yet they will repair and come back bigger and stronger, which means= muscle grow. You should give yourself realistic goals and increase the weights by some 2lb per week. Think about it, it ain’t much for one time but if you are consistent the weight accumulates and so does your muscle mass. When you do this you should keep track of your progress. How do you know if you’ve improved from the last session? You lifted more? That doesn’t necessarily mean you improved or lifted more. This is why you should keep track of your #reps in the set, weight used and your rest periods and overall time spent in the gym. You see if you lifted more weight but took a longer break between two sets then you didn’t do jack s*it. You just rested more, which means you cheated. Use a stopwatch and measure your rest period.