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    Strength Data Don’t Tell You Much About Hypertrophy

    The idea that you can make reliable inferences about hypertrophy from strength data is becoming increasingly common. Even worse, the idea that strength data is even better than hypertrophy data for making inferences about hypertrophy is becoming increasingly common. In this article, I explain why strength data is less informative about hypertrophy than hypertrophy data is.

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