When young men did squat workouts with different numbers of reps, their body weight and hamstring muscle size changed about the same as each other and no different from guys who didn't train at all.

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Gross measures of exercise-induced muscular hypertrophy.

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2000 Mar

The study found that while body weight and hamstring size didn't change much with different squat routines, other leg measurements did get bigger, so the claim only tells part of the story.

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Gross measures of exercise-induced muscular hypertrophy.

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DOI: 10.2519/jospt.2000.30.3.143

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