Health & Fitness Blog — Hypertrophy

Guest article by Daniel DeBrocke, online strength coach and writer for elitefts, Breaking Muscle, and Kabuki Strength.   The subject of training to failure is by no means new. However, there’s been a recent surge of interest, which has sparked discussions on podcasts, social media posts, etc. Often, these conversations are discussed in a should you or shouldn’t you format. In my opinion, this method of comparison is inappropriate since both approaches have produced a long list of elite-level physiques. Therefore, the purpose of this article is not to make a black-or-white comparison but to evaluate the relevant evidence (both research and...

Guest article written by Tom Sheppard of Phoenix Performance Training. We meet again, avid reader. Welcome to Chapter 2 of this article series on training volume about hypertrophy. In Chapter 1, we covered the main factors that stimulate hypertrophy. After all, we can’t talk about how to train for hypertrophy without knowing what causes it. Now the geeky stuff is out of the way; we can start to get into the more interesting and applicable material.  Knowing how much training volume to do is a difficult thing to decipher. After all, you have successful training programs that use a wide variety...

Guest article written by Tom Sheppard of Phoenix Performance Training. We all want to be jacked. Even those of us who claim to do it for health benefits, performance (in strength sports or other sports), or whatever other reason. Being more jacked gives us more confidence, makes moving house infinitely easier, and helps make the sad head voice go away for a little while. So, considering that just about everyone in the weights room is after hypertrophy in at least some capacity, very few understand what stimulates hypertrophy and even further understand how much work they need to do to...