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bradley performed as many bench presses as he could using a 140-pound weight and then, to stimulate muscle hypertrophy, he increased the weight to 145 lbs. for his next set. in this sentence what does the word hypertrophy mean

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It probably means how much he is stressing his muscles with the weights.
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it means the growth of the muscle


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