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When you start lifting weights, your muscles build new protein faster in the first week than they do after 10 weeks, even if you keep training.

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

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2025 Dec 31

The study shows that muscle-building protein production is higher in the first week of weight training compared to the tenth week, even though people kept exercising, which matches the claim.

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Resistance‐only and concurrent exercise induce similar myofibrillar protein synthesis rates and associated molecular responses in moderately active men before and after training

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2024 Jan

The study shows that muscle building from exercise is stronger at the start of training and gets weaker after 10 weeks, even if you keep exercising, which matches the claim.

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Fasted‐state skeletal muscle protein synthesis after resistance exercise is altered with training

Cross-Sectional Study
Human
2005 Oct 1

The study shows that when you start lifting weights, your muscles build protein faster at first compared to later, even if you keep training hard.

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Myofibrillar protein synthesis rates are increased in chronically exercised skeletal muscle despite decreased anabolic signaling

Cohort Study
Animal
2022 May 9

The study was done on rats for only 2 weeks, not 10 weeks like the claim says, and it doesn't compare week 1 to week 10, so it doesn't support the idea that MPS is higher at the start.

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