The Claim

If you do your workouts with either drop sets, rest-pause, or regular sets — but do the same total amount of work — your muscles grow about the same size in your thighs.

Source: Rest-pause and drop-set training elicit similar strength and hypertrophy adaptations compared to traditional sets in resistance-trained males.

What the research says

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Cause and effect
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In plain English

If you do your workouts with either drop sets, rest-pause, or regular sets — but do the same total amount of work — your muscles grow about the same size in your thighs.

See the scientific wording

Drop-set and rest-pause resistance training produce similar increases in thigh muscle thickness as traditional resistance training in resistance-trained males when total training volume is equalized, indicating no hypertrophic advantage from either technique.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Rest-pause and drop-set training elicit similar strength and hypertrophy adaptations compared to traditional sets in resistance-trained males.

    When people lifted weights using three different methods—regular sets, drop-sets, and rest-pause—all with the same total amount of lifting, their thigh muscles grew the same amount in all groups. So no method was better for building muscle.

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