Hypertrophy A new and a high quality research on Hypertrophy

[Dan John]

Most of you don't know me, since I'm not Very active in this forum, but I read all your posts and love it.

I'm gonna put my 2cents, If you guys don't mind.

In my humble conclusion, corroborated by some fellow Brazilian researchers (Casagrande et al.), hypertrophy is a matter of total workload.

People call It volume, but volume is misunderstood as sets x reps, total workload goes more in lines of the basic physics formula of Joules.

So, for weight training, would be something like
Weight × angle × distance × reps × sets × frequency

As you progress in total workload in, lets say, a weekly template, you go towards more hypertrophy.

Charles Staley was the first I heard talk about total workload in his EDT Program, but I believe this also goes in LINE with most of Pavel's, Dan John's and the late Louie Simmons teachings on muscle growth.

Would be happy to hear your responses.

Just an excellent point here. I think one has to look at (well "at least") weekly totals to get a handle on volume. It's the first thing I do, I add up the total numbers for a specific family of moves first, when I proofread or study a program.