The Importance of Load Progression in Hypertrophy

A load that keeps you in the rep range that you assigned to a movement and it shouldn't be so heavy is good for hypertrophy. If somebody has strength you know is a primary objective then sort of biasing like load progression maybe a little bit more frequently than rep progression with the same load is going to have some advantages there forhypertrophy. I think Eric and I talked about this maybe on that rep range podcast I can't remember but I mean there's movements like let's say I program like a lateral raise for like 12 to 15 reps with the goal of like okay once we get to the top end of the rep range like double progression will increase load then kind

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