Strength is a mother...

People debate back and forth about what it takes to get big--high volume, low volume, etc etc.

So, do you need strength to get big? Some would argue no, it's not strength because strength and size are poorly correlated.

Find me a huge a** guy in the gym who is using some 20 lb dumbbells for sets of 10. I guarantee you won't see it (there are some genetic anomalies)

Strength itself might not lend much to hypertrophy, but you can't lift heavy enough weights without strength. The biggest guys have huge, and I hesitate to say it but, "structural" lift numbers. That is, their squat, deadlift, bench, overhead press are all huge.

Strength waterfalls down onto other aspects of fitness, you can use more weight for hypertrophy, speed work and so on. Overload, the principle of overload. You can't always be 1-dimensional in your training, you have to bust out and do something different. Train for strength, speed, work capacity and see these carry over into your hypertrophy gains.

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Ryan
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