I can't give an answer to that as I am not a doctor or in anyway shape or form qualified. I only have a fancy Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine/Pre-Med haha. Your Doctor will not know, you will need to find some Ph.D is that science or maybe a pharmacist in that area. My guess would be...
The main problem I see is that people do not make use of their Golgi Tendon Organs (deep muscle neurotendinous spindle) to recruit enough muscle fibers doing 8-12 reps. If you are not recruiting 100% of your muscles fibers for said lift then how can you effectively grow said muscle? Fun...
So there is evidence both ways. This is the chaos and pain idea of do what you like and what works for you and do that **** heavy! Doing what you enjoy will ultimately make you a better lifter!
It appears that Low reps are effective in stimulating myofibrillar hypertrophy. Myofibrillar...
It is more complicated than that as it has more to do with volume of work. This little simple study shows that.
After 10 weeks of training, the quadriceps muscle volume increased by a statistically significant degree in all groups, but the 80% x 3 sets and 30% x 3 sets protocols showed more...
I will get you some Journal information tonight. Scientifically Hypertrophy happens from the 3-5 rep to failure range. Basically if you fail in that range you are in Hypertrophy. Strength happens in the 5-8 range and endurance happens in the 9-12 range.
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