When beginners do super intense weight workouts where they keep going until they can't anymore, their form gets worse as each set goes on — but that same level of worsening happens every set, like clockwork.

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Neuromuscular Fatigue During Heavy Resistance Drop Set Training to Failure.

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2026 Feb 25

The study looked at how people’s movement changes when they do tiring leg exercises, and found that their range of motion gets smaller as they get more tired, but this pattern stays the same from one set to the next, just like the claim says.

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Neuromuscular Fatigue During Heavy Resistance Drop Set Training to Failure.

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DOI: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000005105

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