Overload Principle Articles

Intensity in Resistance Exercise

By Carolyn Kisner PT, MS and Lynn Allen Colby PT, MS on April 21st 2008

The intensity of exercise in a resistance training program is the amount of resistance (weight) imposed on the contracting muscle during each repetition of an exercise. The amount of resistance is also referred to as the exercise load (training load), that is, the extent to which the muscle is loaded or how much weight is […]

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Filed Under: Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy Exercises, Rehabilitation, Therapeutic Exercise
Tags: DeLorme, Initial Level of Resistance, intensity, isokinetic, maximal, Overload Principle, PRE, progressive resistive exercise, repetition maximum, resistance, Resistance Exercise, resistance training, RM, submaximal

Overload Principle

By Carolyn Kisner PT, MS and Lynn Allen Colby PT, MS on April 20th 2008

A guiding principle of exercise prescription that has been one of the foundations on which the use of resistance exercise to improve muscle performance is based is the overload principle. Simply stated, if muscle performance is to improve, a load that exceeds the metabolic capacity of the muscle must be applied; that is, the muscle […]

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Filed Under: Physical Therapy, Physical Therapy Exercises
Tags: exercise, Muscle, Overload Principle, pathology, Patient, repetitions, Resistance Exercise

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