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Hypertrophy 101- What ACTUALLY Causes Muscle Growth?

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The Mechanisms of Hypertrophy

If you stimulate hypertrophy a lot, you get two things. Muscle growth is stimulated and damage occurs. Damage and growth take their recovery resources from the same general pool. If you do so much in a single session that you get violently sore for like a week and a half, you have done so much damage that your muscle growth is going to pay the cost for you. And how do we know for overboard? If at least we can heal in about half a week's time from soreness,. You're not doing too much training if it takes four or five days to heal. Ronnie Coleman: I could go in the gym right now, do 500 sets, wait two months and get

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