Welcome back to Fitbody Happy Joints. My name is Shannon, so happy you're here today.

Today we're talking about volume needed for hypertrophy or muscle growth.

There is a lot of confusion about how many sets per week you should do for hypertrophy.

So today I'll discuss the current research and aggregate my experience as a physical therapist,

as a fitness trainer, and some of my own anecdotal experience

to create recommendations and guidelines that will be effective, that will be sustainable,

and that will not wear you down. So first let's explain

what hypertrophy means and why to focus on it. Hypertrophy means muscle growth. Many women

are afraid of the term muscle growth because they think it'll make them

look bulky.

And I want to talk about this real quick before we get into the episode.

That bulky feeling or look comes from gaining overall mass. So gaining muscle and either

also gaining fat while you're gaining muscle or gaining muscle and not losing the

fat that you already have.

So you have kind of this bigger overall feeling because you are gaining mass overall.

And I did a workshop on the membership about this and how to do body

re-composition, which means gain fat and,

I'm sorry, gain muscle and lose fat.

So if you want to learn more about how and why

to gain muscle and how to lose fat and how to do a body

re-composition and create a customized plan for yourself. Check out the

workshop on the membership on the Evelo membership. It's called

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