Building Strength vs Building Muscle Size (Hypertrophy) | Dr. Andy Galpin & Dr. Andrew Huberman

I suspect strength is A WHOLE LOT of % of instantaneous muscle fiber recruitment. Hear stories of people (men and women) picking up ends of cars saving someone? News stories leave it as "miraculous", moving on and we quickly losing attention. Miraculous? Is God doing this? Or just maybe nearly 100% of available fibers activated under that mental stress in a moment. Just my suspicion.

you can get stronger without adding much muscle but never realy strong. muscle 2 fibers equals strenght. if you dont have them you cant be strong strong

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there's a limit to how strong you can get at a certain weight. then you'll to get bigger to gain more strength. size might be more abt food n sleep

Whats ths conclusion for muscle building ?

Myofibrilar?

Ok, but which one would give me better endurance/help me improve at sports?

Musclularity is about density, not size.

I would think ideally one will train with sets with many repetitions. Working through worked feeling, and also perhaps lift heavy with less exposure to work. Every ounce increase in muscle mass can theoretically be converted to greater strength. And the reality amongst most people, the memeology, is that no one has ever gotten bigger. You’re generally not going to have a problem with getting too big. I would recommend, for greatest increase in strength… well… pulling out all the stops to gain size… if you want to perform faster full commit sets, also perform sets as slowly as possible, as there’s a lot of chatter that such leads to increases in muscle size. Lift very slowly with light to medium weight in addition to your heavier lifting we can theorize that very heavy weight fully committed to may also provide some good work as your heavy concentric might be pretty slow… lifting slow.. will help you lift fast… and lifting slow you might find… you can lift a small fraction of your 1 rep maximum… and get amazing work… but also lift fast.. no one ever feels like they could safely slow descend a squat. Just get a lot of reps in your sets to induce growth. A lot of people do possess the ability to safely squat slow… they get big….

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It seems like 1-rm / powerlifting and olympic weightlifting are such poor proxies for strength though because pivotal to those sports are momentum, technique, leverage, "cheating" the movement, explosiveness, etc. What's the strategy for building strength without focusing on optimizing technique, momentum, etc.? Like if somebody is a wrestler and has to have strength in all kinds of de-leveraged positions.

What to do to gain strength, not muscles?

How is this anything new?

Also how is the strength measure from the group that goes for a strong muscle but doesnt add to it, like whats the scientific forumla for that mass being able to move X weight? I Believe what ever the explanation for “lifting this heavy weight makes your muscle stronger even though theres no change” is also the key to why some people are just naturally so strong even being small, rather than just choccing it up to genetics.

If hypertrophy helps muscle fibres grow, why must you lift heavy to get big? I train more towards the hypertrophy area and I like my physique but as a naturally petite man it doesnt nothing for me clothed

I'm currently following your functional fitness protocol. I use a home gym with dumbbells(50 lb. max) and a pull up bar. I enjoy the Peloton strength classes. Is it safe to assume that these qualify for my hypertrophy workouts. lots of reps with lower weight. For my strength/power workouts, I think I'm going to have to join a gym for higher weight requirements.

I don’t know if I want to take advice from a guy who has no muscle definition

In regards to protocols for hypertrophy, is it important to hit the sets per week per muscle? For example the shoulders, do I need to hit the sets per week for anterior, middle, and posterior?

So, what I have to do now to become stronger, without putting more muscle on? Stick to 3-5 reps? 5x5?

Didn't explained at all why and how all of that happens

Simplified version "Either get twice as good at contracting your muscle, or make your muscle twice as big."

He spoke very quickly and probably crammed hundreds of sentences into this 5mn clip with lots of big words and technical terms. Unfortunately all he really said was hypertrophy is muscle growth and strength training is training to get stronger.... at the end of my life I gonna want that 5mns back.

A big muscle has more capability to become stronger than a smaller muscle. A smaller muscle can be stronger than a bigger muscle.

3x10 all day every day

Muscle size and strength go hand in hand... The more tissue you have... The more potential there is to lift heavier weight... What are these guys Doctors of? 😂

Didn't say very much

and they use androgen hormones and performance enhancing drugs to maximize their capabilities, increase their performance, and recovery.

Great video, thanks.

soo.. what is the benefit of hypertrophy? if its not required to get as strong as i want? is the reason just Vanity?

I’m would love to here your guy’s opinion on gymnastics:) having them break it down would be very interesting

Bla,bla,bla,bla,bla. Want to get strong lift heavy weight less reps. Want hypertrophy, lift less weight with many more reps.

Can you do a podcast on muscle definition as well? This topic doesn't seem to be explored very well

My takeaway here is that it seems hypertrophy contributes to strength MORE than strength contributes to hypertrophy. And that seems really important

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Muscle grows as a side effect of improving muscle force output. The additional myosin allows the muscle to produce more force. The muscle cells expands and grows to make room for them. A muscle will not grow without getting stronger. You might be able to do more weight in a particular lift without growing stronger due to improved skill and neurological efficiency. But this is not an improvement in muscle force itself. It is an improvement in skill which allows you to move more weight.

Incorrect. Particular genetics gravitate towards activities they have an advantage in. Powerlifting only tests strength and not muscle size so individuals with high neuromuscular efficiency and proportions favorable to those movements gravitate towards powerlifting. It’s got a lot less to do with their training more to do with their genetics.

If your primary goal was glucose control, would it be better to focus on hypertrophy or strength? Or does it matter?

From what I've read, it seems that the strength work will actively soak more glucose up during the work because you're doing more reps. On the other hand, having more muscle mass will act as a large glucose sink to constantly be pulling glucose.

Is there a clear winner here, or should those with type 2/prediabetes aim somewhere down the middle?

How you gonna listen to guys that have no muscle talk about building muscle? 😒

A larger muscle does mean stronger. There is a correlation. I fail to see the kinesiology you are discussing. Lifting heavy weight leads to both increase size AND strength, in a physiologic sense.

Is protein intake and a calorie surplus as important in strength training as it is in hypertrophy??

All this blabbing and you said NOTHING
You left out all the presumed explanation by simply saying....." for a number of reasons".....

You know nothing

I'm the biggest guy in my gym, but I'm far from the strongest. I use a moderate weight with 12 to 15 reps at a very slow and controlled pace. My goal is to make a deep mind muscle connection.

The two types of hypertrophy should be clrarified. Sarcoplasmic (cell swelling) and myfibril, the former is shit for strength gain but you get chasing pumps, and the latter is more dense and is actually functional. Muscle "growth" alone does not distinguish which is which.

Muscle density dictates strength, but is not always true for muscle hypertrophy, which is considered the softer muscle.

Muscle size, from hypertrophy, can decrease rapidly, whereas strength, from continuous working can be maintained far longer. An example of this is 'old man strength'.

If you demand extra strength from you body, in the form of gradual overload. Then your body will do its best to supply it. This usually meens your muscles changing size and shape, as you get stronger. Compound exercises are the best for this purpose.

They didn’t not tell you one single thing how to gain muscle

Less talking. More lifting.