No, I didn’t recognize it as a tongue in cheek remark. If he was making a joke about a 5 minute hypertrophy routine, fine, but he defended/deflected my question with a comment about how everything has a purpose. I literally thought he was having his kids go through an abreviated doggcrapp hypertrophy workout, and I’m still not sure whether or not that’s what he meant.
And, getting bigger and stronger is not so straightfoward, or there wouldn’t be so many athletes struggling to do it. If you lift in the right rep range with the right intensity, volume and frequency, and and of course eat, yes, you will get bigger and stronger. But with ‘coaches’ spreading the gospel that rep range, volume, frequency and intensity don’t matter, it figures that many in fact do struggle to get bigger and stronger.