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If you're someone who regularly lifts weights, doing more triceps exercises each week might help your triceps muscles get a little bigger—but only a little, and not as much as it helps your biceps.
Context Details
Domain
exercise_science
Population
human
Subject
Resistance-trained individuals
Action
is weakly associated with
Target
greater muscle thickness gains in the triceps brachii
Intervention Details
Type: exercise
Gold Standard Evidence Needed
According to GRADE and EBM methodology, here is what ideal scientific evidence would look like to definitively prove or disprove this specific claim, ordered from strongest to weakest evidence.
Evidence from Studies
Supporting (1)
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Muscle Hypertrophy Responses to Changes in Training Volume: A Retrospective Analysis
Case-Control Study
Human
2023 JulThis study found that when people who already lift weights do more sets per week, their triceps get slightly bigger — and the more they do, the bigger they get, though not by much. This matches what the claim says.
Contradicting (0)
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No contradicting evidence found