You said there's two types of effective training. One of them's hypertrophy. One of them is hypertrophy.

Very good. And the other one is periodization.

So periodization is the scientifically based organization of any kind of training that you want.

Hypertrophy training is a type of training.

It's just muscle growth training.

It's like a fancy fucking science word for just getting more jacked, putting on muscle.

That's the technical definition of hypertrophy.

And when you train for hypertrophy, you can do it kind of like by feel and more or less

at random, and you'll get pretty good results in most cases.

But to get your best results, you want that training to be periodized.

Periodization is the scientific approach to how to organize your training to get sort of roughly three things.

Some of these are a bit more for athletes and not regular people.

Get the best results that you can.

Peek at an appropriate time, abs for summer,

and minimize injury risk. And taking all the science that we know, that plan that you've made

because you did in an evidence-based fashion, that is now what is considered a periodized plan.

So that's how those two concepts relate to each other. What do I need to know about

hypertrophy in order to be able to achieve it? Is there anything really foundational? Because

I think everyone wants a bit of muscle growth. I think I spend too long in the gym. I think I could

be much more efficient when I'm training. What would you recommend that I start thinking about

as foundational

principles when it comes to hypertrophy, muscle growth?

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