New Hypertrophy II template

Training Q&A [Moderated]
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Hi Doctors,

Would the new Hypertrophy II template be suitable for me?

Is there much difference between this and the legacy hypertrophy templates?

I’ve been training consistently for 15 month’s and have so far ran Stronglifts, the bridge, 3 day hypertrophy, HLM, 4 day hypertrophy and 12 week strength. I’m currently having a second run through the 4 day hypertrophy template while trying to drop some fluff, i expect to still have more to lose by the end of this programme.

My goal is to continue leaning out as I’m currently uncomfortable with the amount of fat I’m carrying and as I’ve had to diet for 9 months before, I’m trying to take care of this sooner rather than later. Once I’m finished with this I’ll be switching to more strength focused training possibly with the intention of going to a meet.

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I think you could do the Hypertrophy II Template, sure. That said, if you’re on a hypertrophy template now I’d probably run the powerbuilding or strength I in between for a sort of “palate cleanse”, if you will.

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Hi Jordan. I’m in a similar position to the OP, having now run 4 day hypertrophy 3 times in a row (the last 2 explicitly with a fat loss focus, so far down 13kg and 12.5cm off the waist. Roughly half way where I want to get).

I read the Template Overview before purchasing both the Hypertrophy II and Powerbuilding II templates (along with three Strength templates for later) and based on the detailed descriptions got the impression that the new Powerbuilding templates were more similar to the legacy GPP Hypertrophy templates (than are the new hypertrophy templates).

However, your comment here has made me suspect I was mistaken and second guess where I should go next. I was planning to run Hypertrophy II then Powerbuilding II - now I think I might be better off running Powerbuilding II first instead?

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Yes, the Powerbuilding templates are most similar to the legacy GPP hypertrophy templates, but tilt a bit more towards strength improvements than the legacy Hypertrophy templates. If you’ve ran the 4 day hypertrophy 3x in a row, I’d either run Strength 1 or Powerbuilding before going back to the Hypertrophy template.