re: Tips on gaining mass

Ha I married an Italian, her mother is a horrible cook and the wife literally can not boil eggs or even cook mac and cheese.

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gaining mass is doggcrapp training which is extremely low volume but extreme high intensity

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Oh so it's HIT now, eh? Lol

Actually, DC training has a ton of time under tension and that is what volume training does also.

The main ingredient is time under tension and muscle recruitment. Volume is one way of doing that or slower eccentric or extreme stretch holds. Most people can't handle the other two so volume is often prescribed.

I do not believe strength has a direct correlation to size. Look at Johnnie Candito and Max Aita.

your right strength doesn't, gains in strength do. Daunte himself has said that. The time under tension on D.C. Training is really only about the eccentric portion,daunte has talked about that too.

daunte himself is the one that said gains in strength=gains in muscle and went on to explain why progressive overload is so important.

Volume training is about the pump and scaroplasma hypertrophy. It's temporary growth in general. It has its place and should be used in meso cycles after a couple miofibbilar hypertrophy based cycles, I.e. Strength gain phase.

No I get what your saying and agree except I believe that strength gains is the growth catalyst so long as diet is good. I say that as I have seen people look exactly the same year after year while banging away with high volume pump training with hardly any growth in strength.

I believe daunte said if you are on a desserted island and I gave you 135 lbs in weights, you can blast away with rest pause, drop sets super sets or any other intensity technique, but you are not going to continue to grow I.e the gym rat who looks the same yeR after year and always practicing "muscle confusion". Now take the same guy on the island and give him an unlimited supply of weights and he can do the same techniques as before but constantly adding weight to the bar, well....I'll show you a big arse Gillian after a year or two.


Now I do agree volume training helps effeciency and engrains the movement pattern helping to recruit more muscle fibers during top sets. Also agree frequency is very important.

That's exactly my point. I may have been misunderstood when I said volume in my first post. GVT is a volume program with strength progression built in. Volume alone can not lead to hypertrophy. The adaptation to become efficient at the movement is what leads to growth. Let's say someone with that same 135 lb barbell is only able to do 2 reps but increases that amount to 50. Do you not think he got stronger and bigger? After a certain point, there are diminishing returns and the muscle is now efficient. Next, the stimulus must increase so that the muscle are not efficient again. That person could walk around with that barbell on their back the entire day. They will get bigger legs because they had to carry more weight than normal. That's why fat people have big calves but they don't get any bigger at some point. They must get fatter to get big calves.

I ain't proofing all that so if I'm unclear, let me know.

Absolutely.
1-4 power
5-8 strength
10+ hypertrophy

With some body parts that need more frequency and volume such as upper body and calves.