# 7 Week GPP Hypertrophy **URL:** \ **Category:** Programming Discussion\ **Created:** [September 21, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/7-week-gpp-hypertrophy/3457 "2018-09-21T19:11:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lockup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/839c29/32.png) [@Lockup](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Lockup)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/7-week-gpp-hypertrophy/3457/1 "2018-09-21T19:11:35Z")
I have done the Bridge 1.0 and just finished HLM and now I am looking to lose some wait and also build some muscle so I just got the Hypertrophy template. I am older at 47 and don’t think I will lose the weight I want to in 7 weeks but I also don’t want to lose what strength I have built up. That being said the competition lifts in the hypertrophy template are only 1 rep below the first 4 weeks setup in HLM so it looks like I would hang on to some strength through this. My question is can I run this template back to back or should I switch back to HLM or one of the other strength templates after doing the 7 weeks? ---
**Author:** ![PWard](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex001/user_avatar/forum.barbellmedicine.com/pward/32/6239_2.png) [@PWard](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/PWard)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 12:55am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/7-week-gpp-hypertrophy/3457/2 "2018-09-22T00:55:10Z")
This has been asked above a few times. Their answer was it doesn’t matter, whichever you want to do. ---
**Author:** ![Lockup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/839c29/32.png) [@Lockup](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/u/Lockup)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.barbellmedicine.com/t/7-week-gpp-hypertrophy/3457/3 "2018-09-22T02:38:57Z")
Gotcha sorry was missing the search function for some reason