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Stretching your muscles during exercise helps, but working out hard, doing enough reps, and showing up regularly matter way more.

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Myoelectric activity and improvements in strength and hypertrophy are unaffected by the ankle position during prone leg curl exercise – a within person randomized trial

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2023 Nov

Even when people did leg curls with their feet pointed different ways, their muscles grew the same — proving that how much and how hard you train matters more than exactly how you position your foot.

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Volume Load Rather Than Resting Interval Influences Muscle Hypertrophy During High-Intensity Resistance Training

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2022 Jun 1

The study found that lifting heavier weights more times (total volume) made muscles grow bigger, no matter how long you rested between sets — so what matters most is how much you lift overall, not tiny details like muscle position.

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