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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.

Scientific Claim

Drop set training does not produce greater muscle hypertrophy than traditional training in young males when volume is equated, and no significant difference was observed in hypertrophy outcomes regardless of whether volume was equated or not.

Original Statement

“Three studies equated volume load (2) (9) (8) and 2 studies did not (32) (24). [...] Our findings demonstrated that similar increases in muscle size can be obtained through TRAD or DS.”

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Evidence Quality Assessment

Claim Status

appropriately stated

Study Design Support

Design supports claim

Appropriate Language Strength

definitive

Can make definitive causal claims

Assessment Explanation

The study design allows causal inference, and the finding that equivalence holds regardless of volume equating is directly supported by the data. The conclusion is appropriately definitive within the studied parameters.

Evidence from Studies

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Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis
Human

This study looked at lots of previous experiments and found that doing drop sets doesn’t make your muscles grow any more than regular workouts — even if you do more total work.

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Source Study

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Score: 59
DOI: 10.47206/ijsc.v2i1.135

Similar Assertions

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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