Hypertrophy Science – The Effects of Detraining

Generally hypertrophy becomes evident after around 3-4 weeks of resistance training (1,2,3), however detraining periods have also been considered. One study examined training and detraining in 4 subjects during 100 days. The same rate of atrophy was observed during the detraining phase (40 days) as for the hypertrophy rate during the training phase (60 days) (4). 

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