Strength vs Hypertrophy: The Science of Building Muscle

Hi All! Thank you for your comments. If you are reading this I'd love to know if you liked that we added information about the other different types of muscle tissue, or if you would have rather us just get into the skeletal muscle only. Thanks!

I am 62 and have lifted weights since I was 15 yrs old....over the yrs, I did all kinds of weights, heavy, light, more reps, less reps and today i am on a high rep/not so high weight with all my workouts...I call this semi intense, muscle endurance exercising...my sets are hardly any rest between them and I do a whole body workout at one time....while I don't have the mass of my 30 year old self, I still have definition and I am strong for my age...I found that over the years, although my muscles got strong, it wreaked havoc on the joints in my body so therefore I am lighter weight, higher reps person for the rest of my life....there really is no need for me to throw 225 pounds on my back and squat 12 times at my age...I can do just about anything I want athletically and aren't sore for 2 days after I work out like before...I call it muscle maintaining more than anything...I was waiting for a video like this, Thanks Jonathan

This channel is not a fitness influencer channel yet provides more reliable information for bodybuilding and fitness than others. Totally love it!

I once saw a guy at the gym successfully lifting the most ridiculously heavy weight. If you saw him in the street, you would think he doesn't even go to the gym. He looks like an ordinary guy without much muscle mass at all. Really goes to show the difference between strength vs. hypertrophy.

This channel makes my brain hypertrophic

those are bodies behind you, aren't they.

All these years I thought muscle building involved tearing of old muscle to rebuild newer and stronger ones aka “the burn” but it’s the same muscle all along. Thank you for enlightening me!

As someone who worked with histopathology for 6 years, it never ceased to amaze-me how a net of interlaced muscular strings can hold a "pressurized liquid" without leaks for decades non-stop!

We'll just ignore the dead bodies in the background 👀

I would love to see a video on what soreness is and the physiology behind it. I know we may not completely know the full answer to that yet but a video on what we do know would be awesome.

This video came at the right time, I'm on hypertrophy program currently and was just thinking of switching to strength-focused program

Been doing gym for almost 2 months now, figuring stuff out and its amazing how the human body adapts

Dude, I love this channel! You guys make such informative and entertaining content!

Been going to the gym for 20 years (natural), at my peak, i was 92kg with less than 10% body fat and was comfortably pressing 50kg dumbbells for 12+reps....but it isn't sustainable. I was up at 4am and in the gym 1.5hrs a day, 6 days a week I was in constant pain in my joints, was taking pain killers to sleep and if i moved quickly I would get shooting pains, but always wanted to try and get bigger and stronger so thought I would just live with the pain. Since I became a father I realised I needed to take the ego out of it and look at a better way of doing it. Especially being a dad took priority and don't have half as much free time, I needed a different approach. Im now testing the "Mike Mentzer routine" of less time and weight, but more slow control and intensity. I've not tested it long enough to really rate it, and obviously I've lost a bit of muscle with not living in the gym (and also age) but I still get muscle pump and fatigue etc...but just realised the other day, I've got no more pain! No more pain pills, I'm also able to move easier and play with my little boy more. So I think I'm done with the heavy ego lifting 🙃

Not first, but if I see Institute of Human Anatomy upload, I watch.

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I love your videos! Thank you for all the knowledge, energy, and time that you put into each one. Absolutely fascinating! 😎

Another big point is that strength training has a bigger impact on nervous system development. You can activate more motor units and also from practicing heavy lifts you become more efficient

Insane topic! Thanks for share this hypertroinformation with us!

Good timing just started doing a strength workout at home.