| But surely as already pointed out somewhere on here, getting stronger isnt always a result of size increase of a muscle. More often than not its a nervous improvement, with size of inter-fibres increasing. Training purely for size, and therfore increasing the volume, encourages growth of whole fibres.
Simple - bodies react to stress. Make it lift heavy weights and it will get better at lifting heavy weights by increasing neuro pathways and sycronisation systems, in addition to stronger myosin and actin reactions. Make it need to hold more glycogen by exhausting muscles and the whole fibre needs to grow, the whole basis of hypertrophy training. Taking this further drop set, supersets etc work on this whole assumption of taking the volume above and beyond what the muscle can do.
Yeah sure you'll grow in the low reps, thats pretty obvious. To the same extent as 5-8 reps im unsure of - assuming all other variables remain constant.
And hyperplasia - has anyone got any proof it exists within human tissue? You might be within a very small number of people if it definitely does. The only real change i know of is type IIA fibres moving either towards either type I or type II B, which any form of high intensity training with reps below 12 will encourage.
I think the system is great - it works. Just believe perhaps rotating reps could benefit some people?
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