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Muscle hypertrophy involves an increase in size of muscle through a growth in size of its cells. Two factors contribute to hypertrophy: sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, which focuses more on increased muscle glycogen storage; and myofibrillar hypertrophy, which focuses more on increased myofibril size.
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What are the functional effects of hypertrophy?
Hypertrophy is the sole phenomenon of muscles getting bigger. … But all in all, hypertrophy gets a bad rap. …
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Can starting strength be morphed to fit hypertrophy purposes?
If you want a hypertrophy program, a hypertrophy program would be a better choice than Starting Strength with a different rep range slapped on the box. … Hypertrophy-specific programs add volume and hypertrophy-rep-range work using more appropriate exercise selection and ordering than this modified pseudoprogram. …
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Mixing high intensity and high volume in a single session
You can't always do both high intensity and high volume for the same reason that you can't always work on getting better at everything: your body can only recover from so much. It's possible to combin …
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Good hypertrophy program if you only have dumbbells?
I settled on several exercises that I would push hard on for strength and hypertrophy, and some other exercises which I would do for skill work, mobility, stability, or conditioning. …
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Does muscle mass help or hurt for powerlifting and other strength sports?
Many lifters, particularly novices, need to focus at least some of their attention on hypertrophy and mass gain in order to have a sufficient muscle mass to make strong. … I'm also not sure if this would call for a sarcoplasmic hypertrophy phase (in which I imagine one would focus on 10-12 rep sets), or simply doing sets of 5-6 reps instead of 1-3 reps. …
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What scientific evidence says cables build less muscle than free weights?
I'll try to stay tight to your "science" and "evidence" clauses, because there's a whole lot of non-science reasons to use free weights. (Just off the top of my head, there's cost, versatility, compac …
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Less sleep the night before, in order to sleep more the night after a strength workout
This is a terrible idea.
Being sleep-deprived makes that workout suffer, particularly for high-intensity workouts.
More importantly, sleep debt is not "paid back" with a single night of copious slee …
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Slow training versus Explosive training
Studies are hard
You're seeing contradictions because you're comparing apples and oranges. Actually, these studies have so many dimensions that you're comparing the whole fruit section of the supermar …
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