Even if you push yourself to complete exhaustion with drop sets, you won’t grow bigger or stronger than if you just stick to regular sets—as long as you lift the same total weight.

Working muscles to complete fatigue using drop sets might lead to better strength gains than stopping before full fatigue, even if you do fewer total repetitions, suggesting that how hard you push may matter more than how much you do.

If you do the same total amount of work, using drop sets won’t make your muscles bigger or stronger than doing regular sets over two months.

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.

Doing drop sets (lifting heavy, then lighter weights without rest) builds strength just as well as doing regular sets with the same total weight, at least in young men who already lift weights.

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.