Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Demonstrating my inability to maintain any single series, I wanted to start a new one doing short research reviews. Today's is mainly driven by the fact that I KNOW that a new paper on training volume is going to get grossly misinterpreted by the usual suspects. So I'm trying to get ahead of the stupid to explain what the paper actually found.
In each research review I'll look briefly well briefly for me at hte paper, it's goals, what it did, and its results along with the researchers actually conclusions. Then I'll offer my own commentary.
Today's paper in question is:
Camargo JBB et al. Large increases in resistance training volume do not impair skeletal muscle hypertrophy or anabolic–catabolic molecular signalling in trained individuals. bioRvix preprint
Note: this IS a preprint meaning it has not passed peer review.
In short it compared both the growth and molecular level responses to recreationally trained individuals who had their habitual quad volumes increased by either 20% or 120%.
Their primary goal was to see if the higher volumes were negative more than anything else. But we all know that's not how the Internet fitness industry is going to describe it.
What did they find? THE ANSWERS MAY SHOCK YOU!
Full paper can be found here
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707462v1.full.pdf
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#trainingvolume #hypertrophy
Demonstrating my inability to maintain any single series, I wanted to start a new one doing short research reviews. Today's is mainly driven by the fact that I KNOW that a new paper on training volume is going to get grossly misinterpreted by the usual suspects. So I'm trying to get ahead of the stupid to explain what the paper actually found.
In each research review I'll look briefly well briefly for me at hte paper, it's goals, what it did, and its results along with the researchers actually conclusions. Then I'll offer my own commentary.
Today's paper in question is:
Camargo JBB et al. Large increases in resistance training volume do not impair skeletal muscle hypertrophy or anabolic–catabolic molecular signalling in trained individuals. bioRvix preprint
Note: this IS a preprint meaning it has not passed peer review.
In short it compared both the growth and molecular level responses to recreationally trained individuals who had their habitual quad volumes increased by either 20% or 120%.
Their primary goal was to see if the higher volumes were negative more than anything else. But we all know that's not how the Internet fitness industry is going to describe it.
What did they find? THE ANSWERS MAY SHOCK YOU!
Full paper can be found here
biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707462v1.full.pdf
***
Don't forget to use
couponcode: mikehasnotan
for 10% off of all of my products at:
store.bodyrecomposition.com
That includes, books and consults and the code WILL STACK with the multi-product discount. The more you buy the more you save. It will NOT STACK with other coupon codes.
#trainingvolume #hypertrophy
