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Is low volume high intensity more optimal for muscle growth?
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Muscles do not grow during the workout session, They grow in recovery. Studies show that ONE SET per muscle group is enough to stimulate some growth

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Muscles do not grow during the workout session, They grow in recovery. Studies show that ONE SET per muscle group is enough to stimulate some growth. The problem when creating a training regiment is allocating the amount of volume you can do while prioritizing recovery. Others studies show that the last five reps before failure in a set are the most stimulating, so the rep ranges of 5-10 (often shortened to 6-8) is the most optimal for muscle growth while also creating the least amount of fatigue. Finally, when looking at a number of total sessions per muscle group in a week, the minimum required to grow muscle optimally is 2, and the maxiumum, in literature, is 18. realistically, for new and experienced lifters, recovery from 18 sets a week could be quite the task for the body to handle in a 4-5 day workout regiment. 8-12 sets a week per muscle group a week is usually the consensus on the correct amount of sets a week without creating too much fatigue for your body to recover from.

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This is a pretty popular to debate. Of course, based on science, we can confidently that low volume - high weight training will always increase a muscle mass and potentially strength

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This is a pretty popular to debate. Of course, based on science, we can confidently that low volume - high weight training will always increase a muscle mass and potentially strength. However, if someone was trying to increase muscle endurance, higher reps - lower weight would be better. I guess to some extent, it does depend on what your training goals are. But, we must define what we meann by "growth". One could consider muscle endurance to be growth. I would sit down the middle on this argument with a slight bias towards con as I believe muscle growth is subjective to what your goals are in the gym.

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Muscles do not grow during the workout session, They grow in recovery. Studies show that ONE SET per muscle group is enough to stimulate some growth. The problem when cre

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This is a pretty popular to debate. Of course, based on science, we can confidently that low volume - high weight training will always increase a muscle mass and potentia

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