Should I start with 5 x 5 or 3 x 8 sets/ reps? I remember reading

why not do one day at 5x5 and another day at 3x8

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>>39479799
>Call it autism, but I feel like hypertrophy is "wasted space" if it isn't contributing as much to my strength as that volume of muscle could.

This is pure autism.

If you think you can only go heavy every day and keep getting stronger you're a fool.
Hypertrophy is necessary.

>>39479825
Hypertrophy doesn't add muscle. It just makes the muscle fibers that are there take up more space. Strength training adds more muscle fibers.

A bigger muscle is a stronger muscle

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>>39479863
>Hypertrophy doesn't add muscle

HO
LEE
FUCK

>>39479799
Lower reps = better motor unit efficiency = more strength.
Higher reps = more fiber damage, more myosine secretion = more hypertrophy.

The hypertrophy range is also less taxing on your CNS and structural tissues so you can bang out more volume which is the no.1 factor for increasing hypertrophy.

The whole "a strong muscle is a big muscle" thing is a major half-truth.

>>39479863
This is b8.

r-right?

>>39479946
I dont think so Tim

>>39479799

>do 3x8 at some ultra poverty w8
>keep adding weight until you can't progress
>switch to 5x5 and do the same thing
>5x3
>6x2
>do singles if you want
>rinse and repeat
>add back-off sets and accessory work

>>39479799
I've been doing 5x10...
Am I a retard?

>>39479937
>>39479946
>In the bodybuilding and fitness community and even in some academic books skeletal muscle hypertrophy is described as being in one of two types: Sarcoplasmic or myofibrillar. According to this hypothesis, during sarcoplasmic hypertrophy, the volume of sarcoplasmic fluid in the muscle cell increases with no accompanying increase in muscular strength, whereas during myofibrillar hypertrophy, actin and myosin contractile proteins increase in number and add to muscular strength as well as a small increase in the size of the muscle. Sarcoplasmic hypertrophy is greater in the muscles of bodybuilders while myofibrillar hypertrophy is more dominant in Olympic weightlifters.

>The whole "a strong muscle is a big muscle" thing is a major half-truth.
Right

I want to build muscle, but wants it to be as much MF Hypertrophy as possible, and I want all gains to come from that because Sarcoplasmic is making my muscles less efficient.

1" circumference gained in MF hypertrophy is stronger muscle than 1" gained from sarcoplasmic. I want my bigger muscles to mean strength.