Even if you do the same total amount of work, drop sets don’t make your muscles grow more than regular sets — whether you match the weight lifted or not, the results are about the same.

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.

When you train your quads, drop sets don’t make the outer thigh muscle grow more than regular sets — both methods make it grow about the same.

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.

Even if you train until you can’t do another rep, it doesn’t make your muscles grow more than stopping just before failure — both ways work about the same.

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