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When you lift weights more often, your muscles get bigger at a steady pace even if you go really high volume, but your strength gains slow down much faster — meaning your body builds muscle and gets stronger in different ways.

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This study found that lifting weights more often makes muscles bigger and stronger, but strength stops improving much faster than muscle size does — meaning your muscles keep growing even when your strength gains slow down.

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