The Claim

Resistance training dosage, measured in arbitrary units (au), produces a non-linear dose-response relationship with muscle strength gains in untrained adults, with diminishing returns beyond 773,000 au for quadriceps and 887,000 au for chest muscles, after which further increases in training volume do not significantly enhance strength.

Source: The Influence of Individual Resistance Training Variables on Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

What the research says

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Supports
65score
Challenges
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Quantitative
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In plain English

In untrained adults, increasing resistance training volume leads to greater muscle strength gains up to 773,000 arbitrary units for the quadriceps and 887,000 arbitrary units for the chest, after which additional training volume does not result in further strength improvements.

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Resistance training dosage, measured in arbitrary units (au), produces a non-linear dose-response relationship with muscle strength gains in untrained adults, with diminishing returns beyond 773,000 au for quadriceps and 887,000 au for chest muscles, after which further increases in training volume do not significantly enhance strength.

Why this might work

When muscles are trained, they build more contractile proteins to get stronger. After a certain amount of training, the muscles stop adding new proteins because they have reached their maximum capacity to use the signals from exercise. More training after that point does not make the muscles stronger because there is no room for further protein growth.

Supported mechanismbased on 1 study

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: The Influence of Individual Resistance Training Variables on Muscle Strength: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

    This study found that when beginners lift weights, their strength keeps improving as they do more work—but only up to a point. After doing about 770,000 to 890,000 arbitrary units of training, doing even more doesn’t make them stronger anymore.

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