How To Use Exercise Progressions

What is an Exercise Progression?

In a traditional sense, progression refers to progressively overloading your body and increasing the training stimulus over time, to gradually get fitness adaptations.

So simply put, and exercise progression is a path from “less-skilled” exercises to “highly-skilled” exercises for a certain movement.

For example, the Bodyweight Squat is a fantastic strength building exercise for beginners. While advanced folks would need to do a more difficult exercise, like an Offset Dumbbell Squat or even Overhead Squats to elicit the desired training effect.

You might already know my workout style is training movements – NOT specific muscles – so that you can burn more calories in half the training time  and improve your total body movement patterns.

So shane, what are the movements your Exercise Progressions are based on?

There are 7 movements you need to know about:

– Squat

– Push

– Pull

– Single Leg

– Hinge

– Stabilization

– Rotation

Using progressions (and regressions) is how I train a large group of people of varying fitness levels – at the same time. For the more advanced person, you can make the exercise more challenging, and beginners do the basic, bodyweight movement.

Each of the seven movements has an Exercise Progression playlist that I use all the time