The general consensus is 1-5 for strength, 8-12 for hypertrophy, and anything above for indurance. But why?
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For strength and endurance, it’s obvious by the definition of those words. Strength is how much you can lift.. Endurance is how long you can lift.
For muscle growth, they just recommend an in-between.
This is sort of a myth that has been passed on for years. The fact is a strong guy will also be a big guy and vice versa. It also depends what someone means when they say “strength” because there is general strength, and there is powerlifting specific strength. If you just want to be generally big and strong in different planes of motion, then 1-15 reps will give you the same result. However, if you want to get good at doing one rep maxes in the squat, bench, and deadlift, then training in 1-3 reps will have better nueral muscular activation than 8-12 reps, thus giving you a higher one rep max. Even so, powerlidter will still trains in higher rep rages because it’s easier to program and manage recovery better.
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