#hypertrophy

[aimusclelab]

[fitnessfuelusa]

The Science of the Physique: Cut vs. Bulk 🧬💪

Ever feel like you’re hitting the gym but just guessing on the kitchen side of things? Let’s break down the actual blueprint for body composition. 📉✨ Whether you’re trying to get that razor-sharp definition or looking to add some serious mass, it’s all about the math behind the muscles. It’s giving "disciplined athlete" meets "calculated gains." We’re leaning into compound lifts, high protein, and the patience to trust the caloric shift. Remember, a "cut" isn't about starving—it's about a strategic 500-700 calorie deficit to let that hard-earned hypertrophy shine through. And a "bulk"? It’s a controlled surplus, not a free-for-all. Consistency is the only supplement you actually need. Let’s get to work. 🏋️‍♂️🔥🥗

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[quirkwizard]

Hypertrophy and Dragon QM

New Quirk Name: Ryu Grande

This Transformation type Quirk allows the user to change their body parts into parts that resemble a dragon. This increases the size, power, and durability of the part in question, such as making their arm into an arm as big as them to punch through a brick wall. This can come with additional benefits, like gaining wings for flight or eyes for greater vision prowess. The user can control how big they become, like growing them out to three times the size of the user and improving their power as they do. This can be done with any part of the user and with any draconic part, like turning their arm into a dragon's mouth. This gives the user a powerful combat Quirk, demolishing their foes with their draconic power. They can battle foes with their power parts, detect people with their dragon senses, fly around on a set of wings, augment and switch up their fighting style on the fly, or simply use it to be a cool dragon. Though the more the user changes their body, both in how much they change at a time and how often they use the power, the more stamina that is drained for them. The larger size of the body parts can end up being larger targets or just getting in the way of small spaces.

[roid-mommy]

Rest your little head on my thighs... I'll squeeze it open like a watermelon.

[leekeyrouz]

[dad-bodybuilding]

I FINALLY learned what Hypertrophy actually means!

Took me long enough, huh?

I’ve seen the term “hypertrophy” plenty of times, but I never really thought too much about it. It may have been that the main bodybuilding influencers I followed (namely Jim Stoppani and Kris Gethin) never, in my experience, seemed to talk about it. It wasn’t until recently - when I discovered Eugene Teo, Jeff Nippard, and Mike Israetel - did I begin to dive into what hypertrophy actually is.

By definition, hypertrophy is the increase in the size of a muscle due to the enlargement of its component cells.

Basically, muscle get bigger.

Obviously, one of my main weightlifting goals was hypertrophy, even if I didn’t know the specific term. What I didn’t realize, is how training for hypertrophy vs strength differed. Very generally, strength training is done more in the 1-5 rep range and focuses on, well, increasing strength (which may not actually do much for building size); hypertrophy is often done with sets of 5-30 (yep, that broad a range) and prioritizes size (which may not do much for building strength very quickly).

I guess you could say that strength is more practical and hypertrophy is more aesthetic (yay vanity!)

But, I mean, we all want to look good naked, right???

Anyways, as I learned more about hypertrophy, I learned some of the main principles of training that we currently believe stimulates hypertrophy:

Mechanical tension: the constant force created within a muscle as it contracts and stretches. The heavier the load, the more controlled the negative or eccentric, and a bias towards the lengthened position as contribute to mechanical tension.

Training close to failure: this is basically what it sounds like. It is important to take sets close to failure (meaning within 1-3 reps in reserve and occasionally to failure). This is an area I didn’t really push myself towards and it is hard to truly gauge how close to failure we get. But, using machines or cables can allow us to safely push to failure.

Progressive overload: as you advance from workout to workout, week to week, try to add a rep or two per set or a small increase in weight.

Biasing the lengthened position: no need to state the obvious, but I am not an exercise scientist. However, those that are seem to believe that muscle growth is best stimulated when favoring the fully lengthened position. In short (or in long?), making sure to get a full range of motion, stretching the muscle under load to its fully lengthened position. If the resistance curve of the exercise can favor the lengthened range, even better. There is even some research suggesting that lengthened partials can be as effective as some full ROM movements.

This is a lot of info and, suffice it to say, I’ve learned a lot but there is a still a TON more to learn. And as I’ve implemented these principles into my workouts, they have become much more efficient and significantly more stimulating and, dare I say, hypertrophic!!

[juliahalefitness]

Triceps Dips: the #1 Exercise for Strong, Sculpted Arms

Looking for stronger, more sculpted arms in the near future? I got you. Strong, sculpted arms scream “I’m fit!”. More than a few of my clients have messaged me at some point, sharing their absolute delight in seeing their triceps during a workout or by surprise in the bathroom mirror. It’s a great feeling. And tricep dips are a great way to get that strong, toned and sculpted look. Dips are…

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