diff --git a/litgpt/finetune/adapter_v2.py b/litgpt/finetune/adapter_v2.py
index f354decfd0..270674deff 100644
--- a/litgpt/finetune/adapter_v2.py
+++ b/litgpt/finetune/adapter_v2.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 from litgpt.utils import (
     CLI,
     CycleIterator,
+    load_checkpoint_update, 
     check_valid_checkpoint_dir,
     choose_logger,
     chunked_cross_entropy,
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ def setup(
     precision: Optional[str] = None,
     quantize: Optional[Literal["bnb.nf4", "bnb.nf4-dq", "bnb.fp4", "bnb.fp4-dq", "bnb.int8-training"]] = None,
     devices: Union[int, str] = 1,
+    resume: Optional[bool] = False,
     data: Optional[DataModule] = None,
     train: TrainArgs = TrainArgs(
         save_interval=1000,
@@ -110,7 +112,7 @@ def setup(
         strategy = "auto"
 
     fabric = L.Fabric(devices=devices, strategy=strategy, precision=precision, loggers=logger, plugins=plugins)
-    fabric.launch(main, devices, seed, config, data, checkpoint_dir, out_dir, train, eval)
+    fabric.launch(main, devices, seed, config, data, resume, checkpoint_dir, out_dir, train, eval)
 
 
 def main(
@@ -119,6 +121,7 @@ def main(
     seed: int,
     config: Config,
     data: DataModule,
+    resume: bool,
     checkpoint_dir: Path,
     out_dir: Path,
     train: TrainArgs,
@@ -149,7 +152,6 @@ def main(
     trainable_params = [p for p in model.parameters() if p.requires_grad]
     if isinstance(fabric.strategy.precision, BitsandbytesPrecision):
         import bitsandbytes as bnb
-
         optimizer_cls = bnb.optim.PagedAdamW
     else:
         optimizer_cls = torch.optim.AdamW
@@ -158,10 +160,23 @@ def main(
     )
     optimizer = fabric.setup_optimizers(optimizer)
     scheduler = get_lr_scheduler(optimizer, warmup_steps=train.lr_warmup_steps, max_steps=lr_max_steps)
-
+    if resume == True:
+        # Finding last trace of adapter training
+        try:
+            resume = max(out_dir.rglob("step-*/*.pth.adapter_v2"), key=(lambda p: int(p.parent.name.split("-")[1])))
+            fabric.print(f"Resuming training from {resume}")
+            load_checkpoint_update(fabric, resume, model, checkpoint_path, strict=False)
+            resume = True
+        except ValueError: 
+            fabric.print("No previous adapter found. Finetune from start.")
+            resume = False
+            load_checkpoint(fabric, model, checkpoint_path, strict=False)
+    else: 
     # strict=False because missing keys due to Adapter weights not contained in state dict
-    load_checkpoint(fabric, model, checkpoint_path, strict=False)
-
+        load_checkpoint(fabric, model, checkpoint_path, strict=False)
+    
+    mark_only_adapter_v2_as_trainable(model)
+    
     train_time = time.perf_counter()
     fit(
         fabric,
@@ -171,6 +186,7 @@ def main(
         train_dataloader,
         val_dataloader,
         devices,
+        resume,
         checkpoint_dir,
         out_dir,
         train,
@@ -206,6 +222,7 @@ def fit(
     train_dataloader: DataLoader,
     val_dataloader: DataLoader,
     devices: int,
+    resume: bool,
     checkpoint_dir: Path,
     out_dir: Path,
     train: TrainArgs,
@@ -234,6 +251,14 @@ def fit(
     total_t0 = time.perf_counter()
     val_loss = "n/a"
 
+    if resume != False:
+        try:
+            iter_match = max(out_dir.rglob("step-*/*.pth.adapter_v2"), key=lambda p: int(p.parent.name.split("-")[1]))
+            step_count = int(iter_match.parent.name.split("-")[1]) if iter_match else 0
+        except ValueError:
+            step_count = 0
+
+    fabric.print(f"Starting at step count {step_count}")
     while step_count < max_steps and train_iterator.epoch < train.epochs:
         iter_num += 1
         iter_t0 = time.perf_counter()
diff --git a/litgpt/utils.py b/litgpt/utils.py
index 8a64b94110..8196647cef 100644
--- a/litgpt/utils.py
+++ b/litgpt/utils.py
@@ -324,6 +324,16 @@ def load_checkpoint(fabric: L.Fabric, model: nn.Module, checkpoint_path: Path, s
         state_dict = state_dict.get("model", state_dict)
         model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=strict)
 
+def load_checkpoint_update(fabric: L.Fabric, adapter_path: Path, model: nn.Module, checkpoint_path: Path, strict: bool = True) -> None:
+    if isinstance(fabric.strategy, FSDPStrategy):
+        fabric.load_raw(checkpoint_path, model, strict=strict)
+    else:
+        state_dict = lazy_load(checkpoint_path)
+        state_dict = state_dict.get("model", state_dict)
+        adapter_cp = lazy_load(adapter_path)
+        state_dict.update(adapter_cp)
+        model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=strict)
+
 
 def flops_per_param(max_seq_length: int, n_layer: int, n_embd: int, n_params: int) -> int:
     flops_per_token = 2 * n_params  # each parameter is used for a MAC (2 FLOPS) per network operation