(Or is it 20 to 90 seconds? Or 43.5 to 68.7 seconds?)

2 Forget Time Under Tensionĭon't put so much stock into the assumption that hypertrophy-inducing sets must last from 40 to 70 seconds. The more frequent the growth-stimulating sessions you can have, the better. Strongmen from the past didn't train that way and you shouldn't either. In exchange for infrequent, machine-laden, ineffective bodybuilding methods, many great principles have been lost.ĭrop the notion that a muscle group can only be trained once a week. Unfortunately, their methods have been largely forgotten. Old-time strongmen were the people who truly revolutionized bodybuilding. I'm not talking about 'shaved dudes posing in thongs' bodybuilding, but the good old hypertrophy-inducing strength-training from the days of the past. Then I realized there are some pretty damn intelligent people out there who like it. I never liked bodybuilding until I started contributing to T Nation. That's probably because more is understood about the nervous system than muscle soreness, or maybe it's because most of the writers who are only concerned about hypertrophy training are imbeciles who can't even build muscle on themselves. Common sense and science often go to the wayside when it comes to muscle-building advice.

Never has there been a subject with more misinformation. Hypertrophy, Like You've Never Heard it Before

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