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Categories of Weight Training: Part 2

In the introductory part of this series, I made a quick introduction to the series and talked about metabolic/depletion type training.  I won’t sum any of it up here, just click the link.  In that article, I also listed the three primary types of training I wanted to talk about and listed the second type as “hypertrophy training” which is what I am going to talk about for the next several parts of the series.

Today, in an effort to confuse everyone including myself, I’m going to re-categorize that one initially as “growth training”, then babble about a bunch of underlying physiology that nobody cares about and then go right back to calling it hypertrophy training.

Goals of Growth Training

The explicit goal of growth training is building bigger muscles although there can be a variety of reasons most wish to achieve this goal.  One would be to provide a base for increased strength or power performance since larger muscles are potentially stronger muscle.  … Keep Reading