Siemen
Level 3 Valued Member
I was reading this beautiful book called Power to the People. It was all centered around strength. I got the most usefull, detailed and well-informed explanation about strength in such an easy language that you just have to grow strong just reading the book. Strength is now more clear than ever. We've all seen numerous people achieving great results with the formula of PTTP. Then I read another book: Enter the Kettlebell. This book laid out in front of me the benefits of kettlebell training and its most well-known effect on conditioning and fat-burning. At that time, I started using kettlebells. The conditioning with kettlebells was explained well to me, not in the sense of PTTP (my opinion), but I still got enough information. Strength and conditioning were now ours to take and us was given the opportunity now to achieve great results.
But there was something I was missing. Although I really love to be very strong (wich I'm not now, but training for it), I would like to add a little mass too. Now, not in the sense of Arnold or those guys, but more army-style like, greek statue style. A little solid meat can't hurt a guy I think. Like I don't like being weak, I don't like looking weak. But when I'm looking for information on hypertrophy, I don't find much usefull information. I see everywhere do this, do that, don't train kettlebells, you won't add mass and so on. But I never see the why of their answer. Why do you have to do this? Why not this? I'm missing the PTTP approach to hypertrophy.
So now I'm looking for some answers here that will help my understanding of hypertrophy:
What is hypertrophy? When is hypertrophy achieved?
How do you train hypertrophy? What kind of training? Full body or isolation (hope not that)? Compound, training, complex training? Sets and reps? Weight? Rest? Progression? Percentage of 1RM?
Are barbells only good to go for hypertrophy, or can you also use bodyweight or kettlebell or whatever?
Hox about sleep? Conditioning?
Nutrition? Calorie intake? Fat?
And so on.
I just try to understand this fenomenon. PTTP explained strength to me in a beautiful way. It explained me the why. So please give me the why in your answer, so I can get a better understanding of it. Doing it is one thing, knowing why you do it, is completely another thing, but most essentiall.
But there was something I was missing. Although I really love to be very strong (wich I'm not now, but training for it), I would like to add a little mass too. Now, not in the sense of Arnold or those guys, but more army-style like, greek statue style. A little solid meat can't hurt a guy I think. Like I don't like being weak, I don't like looking weak. But when I'm looking for information on hypertrophy, I don't find much usefull information. I see everywhere do this, do that, don't train kettlebells, you won't add mass and so on. But I never see the why of their answer. Why do you have to do this? Why not this? I'm missing the PTTP approach to hypertrophy.
So now I'm looking for some answers here that will help my understanding of hypertrophy:
What is hypertrophy? When is hypertrophy achieved?
How do you train hypertrophy? What kind of training? Full body or isolation (hope not that)? Compound, training, complex training? Sets and reps? Weight? Rest? Progression? Percentage of 1RM?
Are barbells only good to go for hypertrophy, or can you also use bodyweight or kettlebell or whatever?
Hox about sleep? Conditioning?
Nutrition? Calorie intake? Fat?
And so on.
I just try to understand this fenomenon. PTTP explained strength to me in a beautiful way. It explained me the why. So please give me the why in your answer, so I can get a better understanding of it. Doing it is one thing, knowing why you do it, is completely another thing, but most essentiall.