Both drop sets and regular weightlifting make your muscles bigger — and both work pretty well, even if you're just starting out.

Doing drop sets (lifting heavy, then lighter weights without resting) builds muscle just as well as doing regular sets with longer breaks, at least in young, experienced lifters.

When you train to near failure, doing drop sets doesn’t make your muscles grow bigger than doing regular sets — both methods build muscle about the same in young men.

Even though drop sets sound like they should make muscles grow more by keeping them under stress longer, they don’t actually make you bigger than regular workouts.

The muscle growth from drop sets was noticeably bigger than from regular sets, based on how scientists measure the size of the effect.

Doing your workouts more often per week doesn’t seem to help you build more muscle, as long as the total amount of lifting stays the same.