The general consensus is 1-5 for strength, 8-12 for hypertrophy, and anything above for indurance. But why?
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basically, your muscles will grow to do what they are trained to do. If you train them to do a lot of reps, then they will be able to do a lot of reps. It will be a low weight because you are doing a lot of reps, so they will be trained to lift a low weight a lot of times.
If you train them to lift heavy weights (that you can only lift a few times) then they will be able to lift heavy weights (i.e. “strength”). As for the “hypertrophy” part, I think someone just made that up – however lifting fairly heavy weights 8-12 times will indeed result in hypertrophy. But so will the ‘strength’ approach.
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