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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 causes newbie gains?
I do not know or understand the details of protein synthesis but I have an idea about what may be happening at a mathematical level.
Say a person has a max muscle mass creation ability of C=10 g/day.
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If hypertrophy is all it takes to build (tear) muscle, why aren't home workouts more popular
The effective reps theory, which I think is what you refer to, states that the last 5 reps from failure are the ones that count:
So according to this theory doing say 40 push-ups would yield the same …
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What are the benefits of hypertrophy training, if you have pure strength goals?
However I think this goal will be a lot easier and faster to achieve if I allow myself to increase my weight to 100 kg by training for both strength and hypertrophy. …
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Mixing high intensity and high volume in a single session
I have also been curious about this; is there some interference effect between strength and hypertrophy training that dictates how to combine the two? …
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Will reducing rest between sets make push ups better for hypertrophy?
My personal experience is that I went from OK progress with benchpressing 3 sets 1 x a week to poor progress doing 5 sets of push-ups twice a week when my gym was closed due to Covid.
However it seems …
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Is physiology of muscle growth a pseudoscience?
As an example say that study A says that 15 reps are better than 10 reps for hypertrophy in the leg press for young men. … However study B says that 5 reps are better than 12 reps for hypertrophy in the bench press for women over 40. What are we to conclude from this? …
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What scientific evidence says cables build less muscle than free weights?
Cables are equivalent to free weights in that they require you to use stabilizing muscles.
Compund movements such as deadlift and squat have the advantage that they train many muscles at the same tim …
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Rep ranges and the effect of "breaking" up a set
They found that performing the sets with no break caused greater increase in strength, muscular endurance and particular in hypertrophy than performing with breaks. … Therefore I think alternating between hypertrophy and max strength training may be useful. …
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