And my theory of effective reps has three propositions.

The first one is that failure is the point during a set when muscles can no longer produce

necessary force to concentrically lift a given load.

Second proposition is that effective reps are reps closer to failure.

And the third is that the closer a rep is to failure,

the more effective it is at building muscle.

So this is how I would define effective reps. Hello and welcome to another episode of Sigmat Nutrition Radio.

As always, I'm your host, Danny Lennon, and today's episode brings us to number 225 of the show.

And in a few moments, I'll be joined by Dr. Carl Juno, and we're going to be talking about

strategies for hypertrophy, specifically focusing in on methods that work on the theory of effective reps,

as we'll get into.

And this is something that Carl has written about quite notably recently and explore some

other ideas that tie into other concepts laid out by others and dives into methods like rest pause training or

borgeri ferries myoreps and so on and so we're going to talk about some practical applications

of using various strategies what things might drive hypertrophy and so on so if you're interested in

all that you've got a great show lined up. Carl himself,

for those you unaware, has a PhD in health and exercise statistics and now focuses primarily

on putting out information around muscle hypertrophy and trying to give evidence-based

recommendations on its implementation.

So, like I said, lots of stuff for us to get into today,

including the theory of effective reps,

looking at the influence of mechanical tension,

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