The Difference Between Strength & Hypertrophy Training

I don’t think Justin listened to a word of what Sal said lol

Thank you so much for this video guys! It changed my life and physique.

Sticking to a program forever is just fine, you just increase the wt over time.

Yeah, you must vary the program without identifying what the change is, that is, how much.

You don't build any identifiable muscle in 6-12 weeks. Second, yeah, all exercise builds muscle.

@Mind Pump Show --- My goals are strength/power/mobility and prolonging my points and heart health.
Why's the value of hypertrophy?

@Mind Pump Show --- What's the point of hypertrophy?
Why is it important if strength is what you use in life?

Any rep range will build muscle if youre eating well

So how many sets would you recommend for strength training for 6 reps? Besides 5X5

"Everything works, nothing works forever" well said!

We published a good study on this

So basically when you plateau in muscle mass gains, switch training style, once you plateau with that switch again

For me personally I found the RPT method most effective for me for whatever reason I just can progress better and faster, so either it’s superior or the one method I could do exactly right / right off the bat when I attempted

Mooskeles

Super helpful

So just to clarify switching up reps and amount of weight is good, especially for progressive overload. However, the tried and true exercises like the bench press can stay the same. Correct me if I'm wrong.

I do full body hypertrophy for 6 weeks. Then I switch to a 5x5 program for 4-6 weeks. And I just continue to cycle through those over and over again.

There is no difference saved you 7 minutes from listening to someone who has no idea what they are talking about.

If they all build muscle then why is there a difference between strength and hypertrophy?

How long is best to work with one rep then switch to another ?

As far as staying too long in a workout program, what would be too long in your opinion? I'm currently doing four day workout segments and resting on the fifth day, but I am very consistent with the program and with my reps as well. I've been athletic my whole life but I am trying to build muscle now.

Muscle-confusion / deloading are integral to break through inevitable plateaus. Reps / weight ranges and tempos are all closely tied to that.

The difference between strength & hypertrophy training, is like comparing John Haack to Phil Heath. We know Phil Heath is almost twice as big, but we also know John Haack is "literally" stronger in every lift than Phil Heath, not only the deadlift.

So what I'm gathering is that I shouldn't always do 5x5 or always do 3x8 with my program, but instead switch back and forth between each every other month. Am I wrong in that?

I stopped counting “reps” and focus more on mind muscle connection.

Okay so how long should you stick with one or the other on average? 1 month? 3 months? 6 months?

Hi this may be unanswerable question without watching and or working with me but how often should a person change rep and sets?

Damn he is almost kissing that mic

Whenever I lift very heavy weights my joints tend to give up and then they hurt. Should I do hypertrophy instead and completely stop low rep sets?

Is there anything wrong with a standard 5x5 or even 6x5 and so on, then dropping weight and going more reps on the way back down.

So how long would you want to stick to a specific rep range? Like X amount of weeks at say 8-12 reps and then change it up to something say higher snd then back down to lower to optimize the growth?

not clear -

is it find to keep the exact same workout but just change the reps and maybe sets? id be doing mainly compound lifts like a 3x5 greyskull workout but i wanna switch to higher reps later but keep the same workout

I say stop giving false information they not wrong but they are not completely honest either it's all about keeping the muscles challenge that's it once an exercise gets easier and not challenging enough that's when you make the exercise more harder by adding reps or sets or weights, intensity etc simple they trying to keep people confusing by never saying the facts straight up

I want more muffle maff

If these guys are so knowledgeable, why aren't they jacked? Are they lazy?

Sound advice

- both works in building muscles

8-12 reps build alittle more muscle
Problem in the long run it stops working. ( Only a power lifter )

You should play in all the rep ranges.

Power 1 to2 vs strength 2 to 6 vs hypertrophy 8 to 12 vs endurance 50

Sticking for too long routine will not work. We need change

these guys arms are twigs why r they talking about hypertrophy

12 months in a year right? Divide 12 months by 3. That is equal to 4. So go 4 months with high rep, 4 months for low rep, and 4 months for Hypertrophy and watch yourself turn into a fucking monster. Sometimes it ain't the weight that counts is the muscle to mind connection. Been training for 6 months constantly and I've learned a lot from this channel but remember everybody is different everybody has a different path and different goals. Should I post my transformation?

How I'm feeling on the day determines my training... if I'm feeling strong and had good sleep/ a couple days rest etc I'll do lower reps more weight... if I'm feeling the opposite I'll do higher reps less weight as there's less chance of injury whilst gaining the most from the workout...

How long do you recommend to stay in one rep range?

There technically isn't one.

"Strength" training utilizes myofibrillar hypertrophy.
What people typically call "Hypertrophy training" utilizes sarcoplasmic hypertrophy.

Whether you do high weight low reps, or low weight high reps - you are still stimulating hypertrophy. One just tends to build more strength than mass, while the other tends to build more mass than strength. This is why you should do both. Train higher weight lower reps for your compounds, and lower weight higher reps for your isolations. This will ensure that you get both stronger and bigger at an optimum rate.

I can confirm that increased workout frequency and multiple rep ranges does build muscle math.

Soooo what if you did a 2 day per week split and did one and the other???

Man this makes so much sense because I’ve been working out for a year and have made a lot of progress but the past month I haven’t made any this must be the solution

Quick question, how often should I be moving in and out of these routines. Right now I run 3-4 weeks for power then switch to hypertrophy and vice versa. Seems to keep my muscles on their toes so far.

On my first legday I was able to squat 130 KG. I did 4 sets and was able to do: 8, 7, 7, 6 reps. I had never trained legs before. I experienced so much DOMS 2 days later I could nearly walk at work. My friend said I must have god like genes to be able to squat that weight in my first legday. I love squatting :)

Great points.