Health, Fitness & Human Performance · Strength Training
Hypertrophy Training
A topic within Strength Training, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Health, Fitness & Human Performance.
Reading for Strength Training
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No prior grounding assumed.
- BookStarting StrengthMark Rippetoe, 2005
Teaches five barbell lifts in mechanical detail and a linear progression that works precisely because it is boring.
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookScientific Principles of Strength TrainingIsraetel, Hoffmann & Smith, 2015
Orders training variables by importance — specificity, overload, fatigue management — so effort goes where it matters.