Hypertrophy I questions

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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I’m starting block 3 of the beginner template and I’m going to continue with Hypertrophy I afterward. I had two questions:

  1. Seems like you guys put in less upper back work than other programs out there. Your beginner program is working much better for me than whatever I tried years ago, so I trust you guys know what you’re doing, but can you explain why you don’t have a similar amount of, say rows and pullups, compared to benching and pressing?

  2. How could you add calf work to this program? My shitty calves aren’t growing like everything else is. Is it possible to make them grow?

Thanks!

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Re2022,

Thanks for joining the forum and the post. For your questions:

  1. I don’t think that alternate movement patterns necessarily deserve the same amount of training volume for strength, health, or injury risk reduction. For hypertrophy, I’d be looking at total exposure of each muscle/muscle group over the week. In that view, I think we program accordingly in our existing templates.

  2. I would probably pick a calf exercise and do it at the end of day 1, mirroring the leg extension rep scheme.

-Jordan

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Great, thanks for your reply!