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@aeri20 I've never heard of anyone denying a spot...if this actually happened I'd lean to the other guy not understanding what you were asking for.

@askmeanything99 I do 43 sets on leg days and 50 ok arm days unless I missed something. Some people need a lot of volume. I also like to work muscle groups that a lot of people ignore (e.g. hip flexors, neck, serratus anterior).

@noodlesnoodlesnoodles I think the opposite is true, no technique is going to be bad enough to explain this result. It's insufficient volume imo, with slight chance of too much volume (don't think he listed his volume anywhere). Sounds like calories are not the problem because he has gained...

@orlandodoncarlossalina First of all no, you being fresh doesn't make it a more reliable metric than you not being fresh. As long as you are using them in a consistent scheme it doesn't matter. Second as to the RiR estimation problem it won't matter once you set up a progression scheme and let...

@jayaraj No.

@sophiepoeta Not downvoting but the adductors are very large muscles. (Bigger than hamstrings and only slightly smaller than quads according to Google). I love them personally but I have to concede that for the practical exhibitionist they're probably not that important.

@daughteroftheonetrueking I see now, I didn't realize it was possible to scroll through the table. I would say you did make progress but it's not clear how much of that might be strength gains.

@orlandodoncarlossalina Just AMRAP the last set.

@daughteroftheonetrueking It's a huge red flag that you don't comment on the progress of your lifts anywhere (unless I missed it). The formula for bulking is not "go to the gym" + "caloric surplus". It is "make progress on lifts that is enabled by a surplus". This requires careful tracking and...

@leena2016 How commonly does this happen to you? I feel like my deloads are only needed for local recovery (often in multiple areas at the same time but to some extent I aim for that with my programming).

@sphynx You should be much more focused on progress than just showing up and doing some fixed routine. Every workout you should be hoping to make a little progress and if you don't make it within a few workouts you should be thinking about what you might be doing wrong. Track all your work and...

@dragonfruit10 Thanks I will read your links. Here is an analysis by Greg Nuckols that I found useful. He critiques the mechanistic reasoning behind the effective reps model then reviews the literature to see whether the effective reps model is well supported (I think he concludes not except...

@howzat What do you think has caused your serratus anterior to grow?

@dragonfruit10 Your second paragraph also describes what I do when I anticipate falling out of the "hypertrophy rep range" (scare quotes used because it's not as concrete a distinction as it sounds). But in your first paragraph it seems to me you may be leaning too heavily on the stimulating...

@dragonfruit10 When you are doing 5-8 sets with 0-2 RiR I assume you are doing declining numbers of reps across most sets? Just asking because I have seen a few people here say they do all sets at 0-2 RiR but they never clarify this.

@dearlyloved People are extremely dogmatic about the importance of sleep to hypertrophy gains. I think because they love and value sleep and therefore want to believe that it is necessary for them to get a good amount of sleep. Sleep is very important to me and I try to get enough and generally...

@needheaven I think the argument for feedback is a very good point actually. I do short cycles and I'm constantly tweaking my deficit and surplus. Very easy to especially overdo the surplus if you lack experience.

@1ambassador You will find many, many anecdotes of people who went through periods of fairly regular poor sleep and found that it did not affect their gains. No one really knows and there's probably a lot of variation. But "you only build muscle when you sleep" is obviously false.

@rainn You didn't grasp or chose to ignore the point I made about the obvious hard limit of maingaining. If a 140 pound skinny high school starts to maingain, the theoretical level of LBM he gain attain without dying is about 133 pounds. And I don't know if you actually believe someone can...

@rainn But you need to bulk to gain weight.