I was just re-reading through one of his awesome, free “Modern Strength” web issues, and I had a question concerning a statement made about hypertrophy. While on the subject of muscle-protein degradation, he noted that for hypertrophy, there must be an optimal level of degradation (obviously). While that is very easy to understand, I am just curious how to quantify the paramaters he gave. He cited that, for most people, the highest volume they can sustain without overtraining, (thus leading to optimal degradation) equates to a performance drop-off of 6-10%, meaning that your strength will decrease by 6-10% during the workout. Now, my main question is how do we exactly gauge that? Do we use weight, time (rest periods or time per set with a set weight) or anything else?
I just thought that that was a very interesting piece of information, and was curious how to implement it correctly.
I know CT is a busy guy, so if anyone else knows anything about this your help would be greatly appreciated.
So what would a good time per rep be to use the bar speed measuring method? I know there is much discrepancy about TUT so would it not really matter, as long as you pick a certain time and set that as your point on which to measure?