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Allow me to explain to you how EDT systematically increases workload.  Your muscles do not know that they are getting worked to grow stronger.  All your muscles know is that they are moving against a resistance.  Your muscles will then make sure to beef up up and get ready for the same resistance next time you work out.

All your muscles know is adaptation.

Escalating Density Training is based on this very concept.  Here's an example. On week one, you bench 200 pounds with 15 reps.  Your muscles then adapt to become ready for 15 reps of 200 pounds next week.

However, you bench press 20 reps of 200 lbs next week.  Your muscles again will repair and build to be strong enough for 20 reps of 200 pounds the following week.

Every time the resistance is elevated, your muscles have no choice but to adapt by getting bigger and stronger.  After your muscles have gotten used to the high amount of reps, you up the amount of weight.

Let me use an analogy we can all relate to.  If you know tanning, you'd know to start by building a base. After that you can slowly increase your exposure to the sun.  This suntanning procedure should also be applied to exercising.

However, the increasing volume is dependent completely on the size of the base you've built up.  You can only progress at the rate your body is capable of so you're not overworking which is counterproductive.

This lesson is very critical to your exercise, and it sounds extremely simple.  Unfortunately, not everyone knows how to incorporate this into their workout.

A lot of training programs actually share this common problem. They lack a system for increasing workload. With Escalating Density Training, the whole premise of the system is on systematically increasing workload.

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