Robert DiMaggio - Training And Hypertrophy - Gain Size!

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Muscle grows when it is under stress. This is known as adaption. In order to benefit from this stress you must keep the muscle under a constant state of hypertrophy. Learn more about the muscles and how they work right here.

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[paul_v]

This article was great. Very informative. Thanks, Robert!

[bdizzy]

He mentions in the article under "use it or lose it" that if you use weight training to increase muscle mass, then return to normal muscle use, the muscles will reduce back to normal size as they will slowly atrophy their way there. Is that totally true? For example, if in the last 3 years I've put on 70 pounds of muscle, if I go back to normal use of my muscles (general physical excercise and health, but not the same weight training as I used to gain the muscle) the muscles will return to the size they were 3 years ago when all I was doing was general physical excercise? I find that hard to believe. Perhaps it's true, I don't know. Does someone who is qualified know or can someone with knowledge on this shed some light?

Muscle atrophy is of course true as we learn that in school early on and se can just look at really old people, But it seems like the question is, how quickly do they atrophy? In the above example, I doubt they would relax back at the same rate as they were gained.

If anyone knows about this issue, comments would be appreciated.

Many of the laws and statements are just theories how they works for most of us, as example Use it or loose it, true but not true, for many it takes less time and for many people loose it after a very long time. But age have lot of influence of the process too.

Law III
The Overload Principle
Relates to Law II, in that to gain further size & strength, endurance, etc., you must use training that is greater than what the body would normally encounter.
If you train with the same amount of weight and/or repetitions every workout your muscles will not continue to adapt. Thus, you must overload in some way to cause further adaption.

U cant really say that since its more complicated, for example intensity of reps and amount and contraction makes every excersice thousand of ways how to do it and if u for example use superslow reps or rest pause systems, the weight will hit the muscle different every time aslong as u only can go 10-12 reps max. Its how u overload your muscles and stretch it that makes it grow. It also sound on the statement that u have to change weight every 2 weeks or u wont grow, thats just silly and most of us who train knows that the chestday u had last week wont be as that u gonna have today, trying to replicate them are pretty hard if u know how to train and overload the muscles on a proper way. The body always failure somewhere and its not often the same place every week.