Andrew Huberman· PhD
I love this five to 30 for hypertrophy, that's a pretty vital thing.
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I love this five to 30 for hypertrophy, that's a pretty vital thing.
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Anywhere between eight reps per set to 30, it's equally effective. Past 30, it's going to blend out. Past eight to five to four to three, it's going to blend, you know, lesser there.
That tends to work well for me. It also adheres to a principal that came up during the discussion, again, with Dr. Andy Galpin, that for hypertrophy, you really can use repetition ranges anywhere from 5 to 30, three zero, reps. But he emphasized changing the repetition ranges in order to offset boredom.
if you want to really maximize hypertrophy I would probably spend most of your time in the 8 to 15 repetition per set range you can go up to 30 admittedly though I don't think it's optimal to spend most of your time at more than 15 reps per set it's very challenging to maintain the focus required at rep 27 to actually get sufficient failure by rep you just you just give up way too early
anywhere from probably six repetitions all the way up to 30 repetitions but probably more in the 8 to 15 repetition range for hypertrophy most of the time
I really like there is no hypertrophy rep range like people used to think oh it's like six to 15 reps is hypertrophy now I think practically it makes sense to do a lot of your sets in that range because you know if you're trying to do 30 reps getting close to failure I mean gosh I'm going to run out of breath if I'm doing
so again if we look at the um I guess minimum uh dose for hypertrophy when we look at like total set number we want to be shooting for somewhere around you know probably the 10 to 15 range per muscle group