Progressing Your Training Program

As a coach, you’re already familiar with the importance of progressive overload. You use it frequently with your clients because you know that it’s how you force adaptation and create gains for your clients.

Considering we are talking about mobility training, which much of is done without the use of any equipment, it might be challenging to see how we can apply progressive overload principles. That being said, mobility training truly should be a strength-based approach which means we need to treat it as we would any other strength training protocol and implement progressions when appropriate.

Remember that progressive overload simply refers to the increase of the stimulus to the body; this does not necessarily need to be through external loading (like dumbbells or barbells), but instead can be done in many different ways.

Here is a brief list of the different ways you can help your client continue to build more strength through their deepest ranges of motion without ever needing to add weight

• Adding tempo
• Reducing rest period
• Increasing volume (reps or sets)
• Increasing the ROM that is being challenged
• Increase time under tension