The term "endurance" often conjures images of marathon runners or triathlon athletes focused on covering vast distances.

But if you're looking to pack on serious muscle and elevate your strength, endurance is just as pivotal, just in a different context. Let’s talk muscle endurance: the little-appreciated foundation for anyone chasing those BIG gains.

Consider this:

The more reps you can perform before fatigue sets in, the more you can challenge your muscles. Over time, this leads to bigger and more consistent gains.

Now, I know there are a few proponents of “HIT” training out there. If you think you can grow bigger and stronger from doing one set to failure for each body part, more power to you. The rest of us (as almost every pro bodybuilding champion will tell you) need to up the ante when it comes to volume and progressive overload.

While it's true that training volume – the sum of all reps, sets, and weights lifted – plays a foundational role in stimulating muscle hypertrophy, it's not a simple math game.

Adding more repetitions doesn’t always translate to more muscle. It's about the QUALITY of those repetitions—specifically, the ones that send the right signals for growth.

These high-quality reps achieve a stimulus known as Deep Fiber Recruitment (DFR), and it’s what separates the majority of guys who are spinning their wheels from the guys who achieve head-turning physiques.

Let's break this down further.

Quality trumps mere quantity. Our muscles are composed of different fiber types. Without getting too bogged down in the science, understand that some of these fibers are harder to activate than others. When we talk about DFR, we're emphasizing the importance of engaging those deeper muscle fibers, the ones that are often neglected in standard, high-volume training (now referred to as “junk” volume.) These deep fibers, when properly stimulated, can be a goldmine for growth.

So, where does this leave us in the volume versus quality debate?

It's not an either-or proposition. Training volume remains a critical factor, but it needs to be approached smartly. It's not just about doing more; it's about doing what's optimal. It's about ensuring that as you increase your volume, you're also focusing on those growth-signaling reps that tap into the power of DFR.

You may have used creatine to take advantage of this process. And while creatine has withstood the test of time, it takes A LOT of the stuff to get the effect. Think of creatine as a light beer and Tridenosen-H as pure moonshine: there’s no comparison in how one can outperform the other!

But there’s another dimension to this…

DFR, facilitated by Tridenosen-H, doesn't just enhance your performance during the workout—it has post-workout benefits too. The more muscle fibers you recruit during exercise, the greater the muscle damage (a good kind of damage!).

This damage is a signal to your body to repair and grow the muscles back stronger. So, by recruiting deeper muscle fibers, you’re essentially laying down a foundation for more significant muscle growth during the recovery phase.

Why have I never heard of Tridenosen-H before?

It all started down in Australia in the early 2000’s.

A bodybuilding FREAK buddy of mine heard about horse trainers giving their racehorses something called Tridenosen. This stuff was giving the horses explosive speed out of the gate and a seemingly unfair advantage.

To harness the raw power of Tridenosen, the ATP had to be directly injected into the horses’ veins. Needless to say, this wasn’t a very attractive option for most of us.

Luckily, some dedicated scientists cracked the code. They crafted a technique to envelop this potent synthetic ATP with a pH-balanced pharmaceutical coating, a barrier impenetrable to the fierce acids of the stomach, yet gentle enough to release its payload directly into the bloodstream once past these acidic defenses.

Primal Muscle became the exclusive supplier of what is now Tridenosen-H (H for human), and, in 2006, an underground revolution in bodybuilding supplements began!

The fitness realm is riddled with myths, and overtraining is often the loudest whisper. There's an idea that pushing too hard, too often will backfire, but here's a reality check: hitting that supposed overtraining wall is much harder than the gossip suggests.