Whats best for "pretty boy" muscles?

[WOLVERINE1]

By what was mentioned before, he can certainly hypertrophy his pecs and strengthen his arms.

And btw, thanks jpfitness for the advice.

solid advice man, thanks. im gonna tell him.

hypertrophy is basically muscle growth.

Crow, i would shoot for 80-100reps/muscle group/week if your an easy gainer or 120reps/muscle group/week if your a hard gainer.

what happens with things like back and biceps and chest with tris? you need those secondary muscles for the primary muscles in exercises. how do you do rep counting for those?

JP thanks and good to have your weight liftin' wisdom back on the boards.

 

[Karky]

The ranges go like this with goal/rep range: Strength/3-6, str and hypertrophy/6-8, hypertrophy specific/8-12, hyp and endurance/ 12-15, and lastly endurance/15+.

Although 8-12 is considered to be the optimal for size gain, there are many good mass routines based on rep schemes like 5X5 or 10X3. The main thing you have to know about getting big though is that you have to lift heavy weight, period.

So if you just want strenght, doing 3-6 reps is the best. and if you do Hypertrophy specific with 8-12 reps you dont get much stronger but you just get bigger muscles?