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When you move your muscles through their full stretch and contraction during exercise—like fully lowering and raising a dumbbell—you build more muscle than if you only move partway, because the muscle gets stretched under load, which seems to trigger better growth.
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The study found that doing partial reps with the muscle stretched works just as well as doing full reps for building muscle, so full range of motion isn’t necessarily better — which goes against the claim that it’s uniquely helpful.
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