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Hypertrophy Specific Training

What is Hypertrophy Specific Training and will it work for you? The most common form of training style is the split routine, where you spend around a week working individual parts of the body. The definition of the word hypertrophy is, ‘The enlargement of an organ or tissue from the increase in size of its cells’. Research in the laboratory has led to scientists discovering how the muscles really grow leading the athletes developing a new training routine called Hypertrophy Specific Training. Hypertrophy specific training looks beyond what is visible to the naked eye and looks at aspects such as myogenic stem cells, growth factors and mechanical loading. All this scientific knowledge allowed people to adapt workouts according to cellular principles. Main Hypertrophy Specific Training Principles Load and Resistance –  For growth to occur a muscle must have a load applied to it. This has not changed from a traditional ... Read More »

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