The Claim
Controlling for an individual's previous resistance training volume improves the accuracy of predicting muscle hypertrophy responses.
What the research says
Roughly balanced
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When predicting how much muscle a person will gain from training, accounting for how much they have trained in the past leads to more accurate predictions.
See the scientific wording
Controlling for an individual’s previous resistance training volume may improve the accuracy of predicting muscle hypertrophy responses, as failing to account for this factor may overlook the principle of progressive overload.
When a person has lifted weights for a long time, their muscles adapt by becoming more efficient at using the same amount of stress to build new muscle. If you don't know how much they've lifted before, you can't tell if new training is actually making them grow more muscle or just maintaining what they already have.
What the research says
1 studyStudy: The Importance of Previous Resistance Training Volume on Muscle Growth in Trained Individuals
If you want to guess how much muscle someone will gain from lifting weights, you need to know how much they’ve lifted before — otherwise, you might think they’re not improving when they actually are, just because they’re used to heavy training.
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