21/09/2026
Adding weight doesn’t always need to mean adding another 5–10kg.
Especially once you’re working around that 8–9/10 intensity, sometimes the best increase is literally 1.25kg each side.
It doesn’t sound like much, but if you can add 2.5kg every couple of weeks, fast forward six months and that’s a pretty decent increase.
Where people can run into trouble is just randomly deciding they can do more and making a massive jump in load.
Then when the knees start getting sore, the first thought is often that something is tight, something isn’t moving properly, or they need some sort of rehab drill.
When sometimes, the answer is much simpler.
You’ve just asked your body to handle more load than it was ready for.