kjinwa
05-03-2006, 09:13 PM
My brother is starting to do the specialization training program from t-nation by Christian Thibaudeau found here: http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?art...05-147-training (http://www.t-nation.com/findArticle.do?article=05-147-training) I did it for my back a few months ago and had good results, so he wants to try it.
Anyway he wanted more of an explaination about hypertrophy and functional hypertrophy than the article gave. And my lame answer of "whatever it is, it works."
From the article:
Session 1 (Monday in our example) is what we'll call the intensity day. Here we'll focus on heavy lifting in the limit strength (3-5 reps) and functional hypertrophy (6-8 reps) zones.
Session 2 (Wednesday) is the volume day, which uses the functional hypertrophy (6-8 reps), the hypertrophy (8-12 reps), and the strength-endurance (12-15 reps) zones.
Session 3 (Friday) is the density day, which uses a giant set of three exercises performed without any rest. The zones used are the same as in the volume session, but there's no rest between the three exercises.
Anyway he wanted more of an explaination about hypertrophy and functional hypertrophy than the article gave. And my lame answer of "whatever it is, it works."
From the article:
Session 1 (Monday in our example) is what we'll call the intensity day. Here we'll focus on heavy lifting in the limit strength (3-5 reps) and functional hypertrophy (6-8 reps) zones.
Session 2 (Wednesday) is the volume day, which uses the functional hypertrophy (6-8 reps), the hypertrophy (8-12 reps), and the strength-endurance (12-15 reps) zones.
Session 3 (Friday) is the density day, which uses a giant set of three exercises performed without any rest. The zones used are the same as in the volume session, but there's no rest between the three exercises.