Powerlifting and mass

[Khazima]

@khazima Do you know why natural lifters prefer higher frequency and lifters on cycle prefer to work a muscle group only once a week?

@buster is adding an extra set of lighter weight for speed (like a more serious warmup) a good idea for hypertrophy? (I like doing it for the pump but I haven't done it enough to know what it does long term)

Because there is a point of diminishing returns with volume for the day, for example on your first set of bench you'll get a large adaptation response, on the second you might get 80%, third 60% and fourth 40% (rough numbers) but the fatigue debt is the same for each set, making it harder to recover the more volume you do.

So if you get a 240% adaptation response from doing 3 sets of bench 3x per week, you'll recover from and see better gains than if you were to do 9 sets once a week.

my explanation is kind of poor and confusing, Here's a link with some useful information http://www.powerliftingtowin.com/pow...ing-variables/