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.

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Gaining more from doing less? The effects of a one-week deload period during supervised resistance training on muscular adaptations

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2024

The study found that taking a one-week break from leg workouts didn’t hurt people’s ability to do lots of reps or jump high — just like the claim says. Their strength went down a bit, but that’s not what the claim is about.

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Gaining more from doing less? The effects of a one-week deload period during supervised resistance training on muscular adaptations

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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16777

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