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The effective reps for muscle growth - straight sets vs intensifiers

The Chris and Paul Show

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The Mechanism of Muscle Growth

Metrol X-Tress: Most people think hypertrophy is a reduction in muscle fiber shortening velocity. We have to overcome that situation by recruiting more motings, and ultimately it's causing us to reach failure through a mechanism that isn't what most people think is happening. " metabolic stress causes muscle growth," he says; if we allow calcium relative to predominate, hypertrophy doesn't happen.

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