If you take a one-week break from lifting weights halfway through a 9-week workout plan, you might lose a little bit of your strength gains in your legs, but your muscles won’t shrink any more than if you kept going, and your endurance and power won’t be affected.

If you take a one-week break from your heavy leg workouts, your leg strength and ability to keep going during exercises won’t drop in any meaningful way — at least not if you’re already trained.

If you take a one-week break from lifting weights—even if you’ve been training hard—you won’t lose or gain noticeable muscle in your legs, and taking short breaks like this won’t hurt or help your muscle growth.

Doing light weight exercises until you can't do any more for 8 weeks won't make your arms stronger or more powerful if you're new to lifting — you probably need to lift heavier or move faster to see real gains.

If you do weight training with a break every few weeks to go lighter, you’ll build muscle and get stronger just as much as if you kept pushing hard the whole time — at least for guys who’ve never trained before.

If you take it easy on your weight workouts for a little while during an 8-week training program, you won’t lose much of your strength gains—you’ll still get stronger.