If you're a young guy lifting weights more often each week, you'll likely get stronger faster—but that doesn't mean your muscles will get noticeably bigger.

If you lift weights more often each week, you’ll likely get stronger faster—but that doesn’t always mean your muscles will get bigger. Strength and muscle growth might not follow the same rules.

If you're a young guy lifting weights more often each week, you'll build more muscle and get stronger—but after a while, your strength stops improving fast, while your muscles keep growing a bit longer.

If you lift weights the same total amount each week, it doesn’t really matter whether you do it in one big session or spread it out over several days—your muscles will grow about the same either way.

If you want to get stronger, doing your workouts more often helps—more than if you just want to get bigger muscles.

Doing your workouts more often per week doesn’t seem to help you build more muscle, as long as the total amount of lifting stays the same.