HYPERTHROPHY

Hypertrophy training is more commonly known as bodybuilding. Training for hypertrophy or for increasing muscle size contributes greatly to what many people refer to as being “toned.” Hypertrophy training also builds up tendons, ligaments, and small stabilizer muscles and allow you to address specific muscle groups more directly. Tendons and ligaments adapt more slowly than muscles.

Hypertrophy work directly improves muscle size and helps you establish a stronger mental connection with your muscles, which is an integral part of coordination and body awareness (the mind-muscle connection, as Arnold called it)!

Hyperthrophy training consists of mainly higher REP ranges. When doing a set, if you manage to hit 7-12 reps, its considered as hyperthrophy as it is toning the muscles to look more asthetics.

STRENGTH

Strength is the ability to produce force, and the best way to produce force and get stronger is to move heavier weights over time. Strength training is the foundation of well-rounded fitness.The overarching purpose of training for strength is to enhance your ability to train harder (move more weight, move faster) over time. Without increasing overall strength, your body will not adapt as well to any fitness training you do.

The basic barbell lifts (all considered compound lifts) train the body as a whole, demanding a high level of coordination, flexibility, mobility, intensity, balance, body awareness, and speed — especially with the Olympic lifts.

Your nervous system responds to proper strength training by increasing your ability to produce force, contract your muscles harder, and have stronger bones.