[QUIKAZHELL]

QUIKAZHELL on April 29, 2003 at 12:34 am #8365

can someone please explain the difference?

[Kebba Tolbert]

Kebba Tolbert on April 29, 2003 at 2:49 am #20010

[i]Originally posted by QUIKAZHELL[/i]
can someone please explain the difference?

hypertrophy – what body builders do. they want the look of beign buffed and having a fair amt of mass.

funct. hypertrophy – what most speed-power athletes are striving for. so that any increase in body mass is linked with an increase in power output. the exception to some degree is shot, certain basketball and football positions. in these cases their is a benefit to being slightly larger to withstand the rigors of the sport or to play with the “m” in f= ma equation.

Zatsiorsky talks some about this is Science & Practice of Strength Training ion pages 63-65 where he addresses the diff btw sarcoplasmic hypertrophy and myofibrillar hypertrophy.

[flight05]

flight05 on April 29, 2003 at 3:43 am #20011

how do we achieve this functional hypertrophy?

less reps more volume?

i am thinking of doing chrstian thibadeau’s 5×5 ovt hypertrophy program but im sure that any increase in mass will help me out as i am only 160 at 6’0

[Mike Young]

Mike Young on April 29, 2003 at 8:34 am #20012

Perhaps the easiest way to think of these two terms is that functional hypertrophy is a type or subdivision of hypertrophy. You increase functional hypertrophy in pretty much the same ways you increase hypertrophy. The main idea however is that increasing muscle mass will almost always be accompanied by an increase in absolute strength and power (the amount of force and power output without regard to body mass) but the gains in relative force and power output (the amount of force and power output relative to body mass) will reach a point of diminishing returns with the additional body mass. That is, after body mass gets past a certain point the concurrent gains in strength and power do not counterbalance the additional mass and as a result, the individual’s relative strength and power decreases. This is where functional hypertrophy ends and hypertrophy for the sake of hypertrophy takes over. All track athletes, other than perhaps some competing in the throwing events, should only be concerned with increasing relative strength and power because their primary objective is to move their own body weight rather than something else.

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