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Ep. 174 - Periodization for Hypertrophy: An Overview

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Is This Fiber Type Specific Hypertrophy?

There is a questionable role of of this fiber type specific hypertrophy. But we don't need to speculate. We actually do have data on this. So it kind of goes, well, does this matter? If we're training with the the requisite effort, aren't we going to to the same place? And if you take that understanding, there was no significant effect over all. There was slightly, almost, uh, an effect, i believe, for uh, type two fibers. However, it was largely driven by one study. and if you removed that stud dy, the effect on away. The findings line up perfectly with the hypothesis that low load would preferentially hypertro

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