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Chapter 6 · Muscle Intelligence

Training Blocks and Specific Stimuli

January 25, 2021

So just backing up one second, then you're, by the sounds of it, you're a fan of blocks. So if I'm doing hypertrophy block, like a 12-week block, I'm not mixing in multiple stimuli within that block. Typically, I'm like usually staying in this rep range. So I'm just specifically targeting that, that repringing that tissue quality. Yeah So I still like to use more traditional types of periodization but I don get crazy with the extremes of where I taking them right So, you know, when you're looking at various strength qualities like, you know, strength, strength, endurance, hypertrophy, functional hypertrophy, maximal strength, super maximal strength. With that type of physique stuff, I usually stay in a pretty narrow block and I keep it somewhere around functional hypertrophy, hypertrophy, and maybe a little bit of strength endurance. and i would rather what i would rather do especially if they're a high level if i want to build more volume and build more reps i'd rather do that as a giant set or a tri set more like milo sarcef type things so that i can keep the reps kind of kind of smaller so they can have more weight on the bar so i might use a mechanical advantage tri set or i might use um i might use like a more of a gbc i'll use gbc for muscle growth the way i see it is that um you know traditionally that's a fat loss protocol but if we're looking at that with kind of some of the theories that are floating around about inflammation and lactate producing growth as well well if i use a gbc and use excessive amounts of food and put them in a surplus there's something grow.