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A variety of factors determine the results you get from strength training, including factors like genetics that you have no control over. How you train has the biggest impact though and these are three of the main factors that impact strength and hypertrophy gains.
Progressive overload is a basic tenet of strength training. One way to do that is to increase the resistance. However, there are other approaches you can use to shock your muscles out of complacency and spur greater strength gains. Here are six approaches you can take.
When you first start weight training, you probably experienced a significant degree of soreness, what is referred to as delayed onset muscle soreness or DOMS. But as you kept doing the same exercise, you no longer felt the same degree of soreness. The reason has to do with the “repeated bout effect.” Find out more.
