Muscle Round dumb question

[Scott Stevenson]

first of all thank you for your time, I really appreciate it.
I finally realized that in the MR I only interpreted the increase in load as progressive overload, eliminating an important part of the equation.

increasing only the load by sacrificing the repetitions I didn't have a real performance improvement.
thank you for guiding me to the answer!

I will treasure it for the upcoming blast

Awesome!

Yes - if you could lift 75lb for 12 reps, 80lb for 10, 85lb fo 6 and 90lb x 3 reps, as an example (for someone with roughly a 100lb 1RM in a compound lift like a squat) and, over time (workouts) you increase the load such that reps are less, but when you go back and "test" yourself with the lighter load, you find there's no increase in reps (performance), then there was really no progressive overload occurring (or at least no adaptation to overload).

-S