Hardgainer Routine for Strength and Density
I recently wrote a post on a hardgainer routine for size and if you read that one, you know the importance of building strength and density. You see, without a strength increase, there will be no muscle size increase, period. The density is just a matter of not only looking big when you increase muscle size, but you also want to look solid and defined. With that being said, I recommend you follow my personal hardgainer workout, but this time with the rep range in which myofibrillar hypertrophy is triggered for increased strength and density.
What is the rep range for strength and density?
If you are looking to pack on serious strength and getting the “brick wall” look to appear extremely solid, I suggest you train to trigger myofibrillar hypertrophy. This is a type of muscular hypertrophy that allows you to not only increase strength rapidly, but your muscles will start to become much denser. The rep range you want to perform in order to trigger this type of muscular hypertrophy is typically between 1 and 5. If you are already following a solid compound based workout routine, you can simply change the rep range in which you are currently following.
Because more hardgainers have a pretty typical goal of putting on size, strength might not be of too much interest. If that is the case, you are basically screwing yourself out of serious muscle gains. Although gaining muscle size is triggered by a different rep range, unless your strength and volume increases, you will no longer see results. This is why it is so important that you train to trigger both myofibrillar and sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. The myofibrillar hypertrophy will increase your strength which will help increase the volume of your workout when triggering sarcoplasmic hypertrophy. My recommendation to you is, train both types of muscular hypertrophy for best results and continuous muscle gains.
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