026 How does insufficient sleep affect hypertrophy / atrophy?
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past & Present, Jake and Chris dive into a Bill Pearl full-body routine, using it as a bridge between the pre-steroid silver era and the early anabolic era. From there,...
16 Nov 20251h 19min
025 How does insufficient sleep affect training?
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past & Present, Jake and Chris break down Bob Hoffman’s basic athletic program through a modern physiology lens and unpack how insufficient sleep impacts training perfo...
9 Nov 202555min
024 Training, hypertrophy, and recovery for older people
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past & Present, Jake and Chris discuss Silver-Era author Peary Rader’s “training as you get older” guidelines and dive into how to construct a modern, physiology-led te...
2 Nov 20251h 4min
023 Fatigue accumulation and what to do about it.
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris unpack a Silver-Era routine passed from 1950 Mr America John Farbotnik to Gene Mozee at a time where high volume plans were taking over...
27 Okt 20251h 6min
022 How intra-workout carbohydrates reduce supraspinal CNS fatigue
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris unpack Steve Reeves’ 1947 pre-competition full-body routine, then dive into why the Silver-Era were such advocates of orange juice + ho...
19 Okt 202558min
021 Why Counting “Half Sets” for Secondary Muscles Doesn't Make Sense
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris break down Dick DuBois’ 1954 full-body routine (and we finally have some pull-ups!). They then tackle the “half-set” myth, why counting...
13 Okt 20251h 7min
020 How to program a muscle specialisation phase
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris use Peary Rader’s leg routine to outline a practical, physiology-led blueprint for muscle specialisation.Key topics include:Peary Rader...
6 Okt 20251h 21min
019 Cluster Sets – How they work and how to use them
In this episode of Hypertrophy: Past and Present, Jake and Chris start by discussing one of the most widely used methods of the Silver Era; the 20 rep squat. They then dive into the physiology of clus...
29 Sep 20251h 21min
