For men who lift weights regularly, the body's testosterone reaction after workouts was about the same whether they did short, intense sessions or longer, higher-volume ones, and this didn't really change over 8 weeks of training.

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The effect of training volume and intensity on improvements in muscular strength and size in resistance-trained men

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2015 Aug

The study looked at the same training types as the claim, but it didn't actually share any results about testosterone, so we can't tell if the claim is true or not.

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The effect of training volume and intensity on improvements in muscular strength and size in resistance-trained men

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DOI: 10.14814/phy2.12472

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