So the concept of sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is currently back in the limelight of the fitness industry. This is due to an additional analysis of the Huan et. al. study that Mike Israetel was involved with. I discussed the original study in detail in my series on Training Volume and Hypertrophy and will briefly re-examine it below for background context of the newer paper.
In fact, I was originally going to do a research review on the new paper but, honestly, it was going to be boring and overly detail oriented and it seemed more useful to look at the topic in a more general sense (while still being my own boring, neurotic detail oriented self).
Edit on June 6th, 2015: When I originally wrote this, the paper had not passed peer review but it has just been published officially. As I knew it would.
Now, I have written about the concept of sarcoplasmic hypertrophy in the past, probably in my Ultimate Diet 2.0 but I imagine elsewhere. … Keep Reading