If you take it easy on your weight workouts for a little while during an 8-week training plan, your arm and thigh muscles will still grow just as much as if you kept going full force.

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.

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.

Doing strength training with heavy weights for two months makes your muscles bigger and stronger, no matter when you take creatine.

Lifting weights just twice a week for two months is enough to make the upper and middle parts of your thighs bigger—even if you change how you do the sets, as long as you do the same total work.

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.