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Whether you lift lighter weights or heavier weights until you can't do any more reps, both ways give you the same muscle growth and strength gains if you're already used to training.

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Supporting (2)

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This study shows that lifting lighter weights many times or heavier weights fewer times, both until you can't do more, gives similar muscle growth and strength gains in men who already work out.

The study shows that lifting lighter weights many times or heavier weights fewer times, both done until failure, give similar muscle growth and strength gains in trained people, just like the claim says.

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The study didn't test high weights with pushing until failure like the claim says, so it can't fully support it, and it actually shows high weights without failure gave better strength gains.

The study looked at training to failure versus not to failure and found that training to failure might lead to more muscle growth, which doesn't match the claim that both low and high loads to failure give the same results.

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