Training smart to produce more strength

Athletes use progressive overload to get stronger with increased weight. But there's only so much progress you can make with that method. As muscles get stronger, tendon strength becomes a limiting factor. This causes you to "hit a wall" and stall out. Instead of continually adding weights to your exercise, try "milking the weight" (lowering the weight). Make the exercise harder without adding more weight. Use a fixed-weight progressive overload. Make the reps harder with slow negatives and pauses to challenge your muscles. Master that weight, then add more.