What if things don’t work like we think?
Ask anyone in the strength and conditioning field for more than a few minutes about how to develop hypertrophy and they will tell you that athletes need to do sets of 8-12...
hormones
Strength Training: Do Repetitions and Intensity Determine Gains?
For as long as I’ve been in this field, I’ve been taught that there are ideal ranges of volume and training intensity to accomplish different goals from strength training. For example, if...
Knowledge Is Slippery: Hormones And Hypertrophy
The November issue of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise has an interesting point/counter-point article examining whether acute increases in anabolic hormones drive muscle hypertrophy. The theory is that a bout...
Strength Training and Hormones
Testosterone is one of the major anabolic hormones involved in strength training. Strength training produces an acute increase in testosterone. In other words, the act of lifting weights causes the body to...