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The effective reps for muscle growth - straight sets vs intensifiers

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The Problems With Stimulating Reps

From one set to about six sets with longer rest periods is kind of where we see the here. The maximum amount I'm going to get from one is, like you said, it doubles on around five or six sets and then kind of platoes out from there. Even in the people that are the outliers, it's only about, I think, eight sets. That's around eight sets where they're seeing the outliers still get some hypertrophy stimulus. In longitudinal hypertrophy studies, they didn't see anything up to 12 sets. They saw no increase in myofibrable protein synthesis, but there was no increase in hypertrophy outcomes. So that just tells

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