To get the most muscle growth from drop sets, you have to push until you can’t do another rep — if you stop short, you might not get the same results.

When you train to near failure, doing drop sets doesn’t make your muscles grow bigger than doing regular sets — both methods build muscle about the same in young men.

Even if you train until you can’t do another rep, it doesn’t make your muscles grow more than stopping just before failure — both ways work about the same.

Drop set training, involving multiple load reductions without rest until momentary failure, produces skeletal muscle hypertrophy equivalent to traditional resistance training with multiple sets.

Even though drop sets sound like they should make muscles grow more by keeping them under stress longer, they don’t actually make you bigger than regular workouts.

Even if you push yourself to complete exhaustion with drop sets, you won’t grow bigger or stronger than if you just stick to regular sets—as long as you lift the same total weight.