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WH2 key variables holding people back from effective hypertrophy training:
1. You are not training hard enough. And I don’t mean that in the sense that you are lazy and not “trying”. What I mean is you are not training with sufficient intensity to stimulate growth. The 3-4 reps leading into failure are where true hypertrophy stimulus lives. Far too often people are not training in close enough proximity to failure and never get to these stimulating reps. The perception of “difficulty” is often skewed and people commonly have more reps in the tank that they realize.
2. Too much volume. Too many sets. When you are truly pushing sets with sufficient intensity, you don’t need a ton of these to grow. In fact, the more of these high intensity sets you execute within a session, the more and more the returns diminish with each subsequent set as force production decreases as fatigue accumulates. People get into workouts that consist of way too much “junk volume”
If you were to see my current training routine on paper…it wouldn’t look like much. But then you see me execute each set…and suddenly those 6-8 working sets in one session don’t seem so minimal anymore.
Stay tuned for my “winter bulk” hypertrophy program coming soon….In the meantime hit the link in my bio to see the training programs I have currently available.
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