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In young active women, doing repeated rounds of intense arm exercises doesn’t change how muscles handle calcium, so that’s probably not why they get more resistant to soreness over time.

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The study looked at muscle function after repeated arm exercises in young women and found that signs of muscle cell signaling problems didn’t change between workouts, supporting the idea that these issues aren’t why muscles get more resilient after the first workout.

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