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332: All About Stimulus To Fatigue Ratio - James Hoffmann

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Is There a Time When Hypertrophy Training Is Getting Staggered?

The first thing that you'll notice when staleness becomes an issue is when we look at some of those kind of ghetto MEV indicators like pump, soreness, disruption, my muscle connection. Most people get around about three mesocycles on a movement before it kind of you see that like plateauing effect where they have been making a lot of progress and then it just kind of starts flattening out towards the end. For most intermediates, usually it's around three or so. Some people can go flat sooner than that. Another thing you can use are intensification techniques like doing myo reps or doing like metabolite type protocols.

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