Powerlifters get this wrong (hypertrophy work mistake)

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[@homeboy11153]

Killing it man. Good information.

[@jordengerbrandt]

more about the relationship between strength and hypertrophy would be awesome

[@tv26889]

Progressive overload: adding weight or reps to your sets over time yields muscle gain. Simple.

[@jordengerbrandt]

@@tv26889 indeed, but I'm more interested in the nuances on the topic of muscle size related to force production and why increasing muscle size doesn't always seem to translate to a proportionate increase in strength. Are there different types of hypertrophy? Is it all about the nervous system? Can specificity save us from sarcoplasmic hypertrophy lol by going heavier on our hypertrophy work?

[@lejancalo]

Great video Josh! Keep them coming.

[@TomasDohnal10]

Amazing video and looking forward to the upcoming one! I have one question related to the task specific hypertrophy continuum-if my goal is to e. g. increase my competition 1rm squat, would I get benefit of performing the squat/leg press motion more "bodybuilding style" (i. e. slow eccentric, get into a deep stretch, pause for a moment) at the expense of lower specificity (both in terms of different motion pattern and lower weight)? (Same would apply for e. g. competition bench press vs dumbbell bench press with deep stretch at the bottom) Thakn you very much!

[@primetimeperformance]

The correlation between hypertrophy and power is astonishingly low. This is due to power being a function of neuromuscular drive. Size, in and of itself, does not translate to power in the absence of max intensity training.

[@kapoioBCS]

Nice 👍

[@danieljahn2027]

Strength limiter 💪🏼💗

[@alexanderchernoshtan9898]

at last someone talks about specificity as is, tyty what about the correlation between size and str? its pretty obvious

[@datadrivenstrength]

Taking a group of participants and looking at the relationship between muscle mass and strength is very limited as that can't tell us what *caused* the strength gain

[@alexanderchernoshtan9898]

​@@datadrivenstrength yap, but if the only variable that changed during the research is muscle thickness (via hyper training) u can show the correlation correlation is not causation, ofc, but if str grows with the muscle mass, emm, yeah, there are a lot of other factors 🤔

[@tv26889]

@@datadrivenstrength We have a study that shows dexa scan information can predict your max squat within 10%, this indicates how big the primary movers is fundamental to your strength.

[@jaymills1720]

Again, if muscle size isn’t important for strength then why are larger lifters stronger? Why do weightlifting and powerlifting federations have weight classes?

[@tv26889]

Right, the very process of gaining muscle relies on progressive overload--adding weight or reps to your sets over time. If you don't, muscle growth will stall.

[@sealedindictment]

and who let these nerds out of the lab?

[@datadrivenstrength]

Did you watch to the video? Timestamp 1:31 may help

[@jaymills1720]

@@datadrivenstrength yes this is a general question to anyone saying muscle size doesn’t matter, not necessarily you.

[@tv26889]

@@datadrivenstrength How can you say increasing muscle size doesn't increase it's strength when the very process of making a muscle a bigger relies on progressive overload--adding reps or weight to your sets over time. If you gained 10 pounds of muscle you went from say doing 3x5 with a weight to 7x5. You just got STRONGER as you gained muscle, not POTENTIALLY. How could you quantify something like that anyway?

[@tv26889]

Bad take. The very process of gaining muscle relies on progressive overload--adding reps or weight to your sets over time. If you don't, muscle growth will stall. Who has bicep development doing curls with 20 pounds?

[@jordengerbrandt]

I have seen it! You can also get bigger by adding more volume instead of weight to the bar, time under tension, or range of motion, you can also increase your effort or proximity to muscular failure and grow more. Why do some people have large muscles but are not nearly as strong as some with smaller muscles? The nervous system also complicates things. You are right though, muscle size does matter I don't think we know how much it matters and your recommendations are great for the average gymgoer just trying to get generally big and strong. Nothing wrong with keeping it simple.

[@tv26889]

​@@jordengerbrandt I Disagree with building big biceps with 20 pounds. Agree with instead of adding weight or reps, you could add another set, or stay at the same weight and do a harder variation. However, regardless you will have to go up in weight or reps at some point. Why do some people have large muscles who arent as strong as someone smaller? Muscle insertion points, limb lengths, ability to recruit more motor units and neurons to lift the weight with the amount of muscle they have.

[@tv26889]

@@jordengerbrandt I myself do that, doing very long range of motion dumbbell presses with a significantly lighter weight instead of a regular range of motion with big weights.