Anonymous #1 4d

Full Body 3x. By far the best split I’ve tried

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Anonymous #1 4d

I’ve also ran Upper/Lower 6x, but I found the compounding fatigue of training 6 days a week to be a lot. Full body felt substantially better

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Anonymous OP 4d

i did fb every other day about a year ago and noticed crazy strength gains but hypertrophy wise not so much, i run anterior/ posterior now so it’s not exactly 3x frequency but almost and i’ve seen great gains

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Anonymous #1 4d

That is not how that works

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Anonymous #1 4d

Strength is generally a better indicator of progress than your own visual perception of hypertrophy, for a number of reasons. 1. Strength adaptations are primarily driven by hypertrophy. If you got a lot stronger, it’s almost certainly because your muscles got bigger 2. Strength is a quantitative measure, while perceived size is qualitative, and thus, far more susceptible to human error

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Anonymous OP 4d

3. Size adaptations happen at about 1/7th the rate of strength adaptations, and are slow and small to the point where the ability to perceive them over shorter periods of time is basically nonexistent. If I showed you a picture of me 4 weeks ago compared to now, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell any difference, but based on the fact that I’ve gotten stronger on every lift, I definitely did experience hypertrophy.

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Anonymous #2 4d

Yeah… I wanted to say it in a more polite way, but strength and hypertrophy are not separate mechanisms. Aside from neural adaptations, which plateau after a few weeks of a new exercise, the only way to get stronger is to get bigger muscles, so if you are consistently getting stronger, you are absolutely growing

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