Um Yeah , good to do a lot of them . You've established that 10 really to 20 sets per week is the kind of bounds for um maintaining and , and initiating hypertrophy . If I were to like flag one of them , I would say 15 to 20 is the set that you want to get .
Um You see the same thing with plateaus . Um So typically it sort of just like , OK , the routine you're on , you've been on it for too long , we need to either go to the other end of the hypertrophy spectrum for intensity , which means like if you've been in the like 60 to 70% of your one or petition max range , maybe we actually need to go heavier . Uh take our repetitions down , maybe even our total volume down and go heavier .
It's very common to , to have challenges , activating lots . Yeah , I've noticed that many of the muscle groups that were responsible for a large fraction of the work in the various sports that I played as a young child are muscles that are very easy for me to selectively isolate and induce hypertrophy . And um I suppose I'm one of those mutants where my lats happened to be one such of those muscle groups .
You're not so sore and so damaged and beat up that you can't maintain that volume for , you know , eight weeks at a time or at least six weeks at a time . Then I'd probably say either the style of repetitions , the amount of repetitions per set you're doing are too much . The volume is getting to you .
Ok . So if you're somewhere in this 10 to 20 working sets range and you're in a position where you can continue to do that . You're not so sore and so damaged and beat up that you can't maintain that volume for , you know , eight weeks at a time or at least six weeks at a time .
