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Just because your muscles get bigger from lifting weights doesn't mean you'll get much stronger — the two don't really go hand in hand.

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Resistance training load does not determine resistance training-induced hypertrophy across upper and lower limbs in healthy young males.

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2025 Dec 31

Even when people’s muscles get bigger from lifting weights, their strength doesn’t always increase the same way — sometimes muscles grow a lot but strength doesn’t, and vice versa, meaning bigger muscles don’t always mean stronger.

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Resistance training load does not determine resistance training-induced hypertrophy across upper and lower limbs in healthy young males.

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DOI: 10.1113/JP289684

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