The Claim
Higher weekly resistance training volume increases muscle hypertrophy, with diminishing returns observed beyond approximately 10 sets per muscle group.
What the research says
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Increasing the number of resistance training sets per muscle group each week leads to greater muscle growth, but the additional gain slows down after about 10 sets.
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Higher weekly resistance training volume increases muscle hypertrophy, with diminishing returns beyond approximately 10 sets per muscle group.
When muscles are worked hard, the pulling force on muscle fibers and the buildup of metabolic byproducts turn on a molecular switch that tells the cell to build more muscle protein. This switch gets less responsive after a certain amount of work, so doing more doesn't make more muscle.
What the research says
2 studiesPeople who lifted weights 60 times a week didn’t grow their muscles any more than those who lifted 40 times a week — so doing even more sets didn’t help. This means the idea that more lifting always means more muscle growth isn’t true, at least not beyond a certain point.
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