Mechanisms of Hypertrophy and Growth Theories

And so if we look at like traditional rep ranges, you're going to go eight to 12, right? Eight to 12, that's typical bodybuilder stuff. So you look at those percentages being somewhere around 77.5% to around 67.5%, right? And they think that that's the only way to grow, but it's not, right? You've got progressive resistance, obviously, you can keep adding weight to the bar. You've got mechanical tension, you've got muscle damage, you've got metabolic byproducts will stimulate growth. So in that case, you're looking at inflammatory markers, right? The more inflammation I can create that I can recover from, my muscle is going to swell and grow. So there's a, man, there's so many different things that people need to look at. There's some theories on lactate producing growth as well. You know, there's a lot of things you're not going to see really in the literature yet, because it just hasn't been studied enough, but people see it in empirical observation and some people have measured it, but it's just not in the literature. You know, then you've got the factor of food and supplements and you've got the the factor of what's actually causing the growth is it myofibular growth or sarcoplasmic growth and then people fight about that um and i think one of the arguments that people fight about is that you know you you can't just have sarcoplasmic growth without having myofibular growth right but in my opinion you can have myofibular growth with no sarcoplasmic growth right yeah you know so and then you've got various muscle fibers you're looking at what are you really expecting right now? There's a lot of levels, right? And that's what I say.