eli5: What is a hypertrophy workout different from a normal workout?
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Hypertrophy means that you’re building mass, as in sheer size of muscles, as opposed to strength or athletic prowess. This is typically done, to the extreme, by bodybuilders.
The specificity is that you train in a certain way that favors mass gains (for example, higher weights with fewer repetitions is the predominant approach), and you also calibrate your nutrition to the same effect (large quantities of protein to favor bulking, for example).
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