Even though rest-pause training helps you lift heavier, it doesn’t make your muscles bigger than regular training—meaning strength and muscle growth might be controlled by different things.

Rest-pause training helps you lift heavier without making your muscles bigger—so maybe your nervous system gets better at using your muscles, not just your muscles getting bigger.

Even though exact numbers aren’t given, the researchers noticed that rest-pause training seemed to help people get a bit stronger than regular training, just not by a lot.

Rest-pause training might help you lift a little heavier than regular training, but the difference is small, and we can’t be sure it matters much in real life because the study had few participants.

If you're a young guy lifting weights more often each week, you'll build more muscle and get stronger—but after a while, your strength stops improving fast, while your muscles keep growing a bit longer.

If young men lift weights with the same total effort—whether they use heavy weights with long breaks or light weights with short breaks—they’ll still grow about the same amount of muscle. So, different ways of lifting can both work.