Even though lifting weights makes your body release growth hormone and testosterone, studies show that these short-term hormone surges don’t actually make your muscles grow bigger over time.

Working out until you're exhausted might make your body release more growth hormone and testosterone, which could help your muscles grow — but we’re not sure if these hormones actually cause the growth.

You can build muscle by working one arm or leg at a time, even if your body doesn’t show higher levels of muscle-building hormones in your blood—so maybe it’s the physical stress on the muscle itself, not the hormones, that makes it grow.

Even though lifting weights with short breaks makes your body release more growth hormone, that doesn’t mean you’ll grow bigger muscles over time.

Just because your testosterone, growth hormone, and IGF-1 levels spike after a workout doesn't mean those spikes are what make your muscles grow.

Even if you make your muscles feel that burning, swollen 'pump' feeling during a workout by boosting certain chemicals, it doesn't actually make your muscles grow bigger—studies show muscle growth doesn't happen just from that sensation.