The Claim

Training your right arm alone makes your right arm stronger, but doesn’t help your left arm get stronger — the benefit stays on the side you trained.

Source: Small muscle mass exercise enhances muscular adaptations? Effects of unilateral and bilateral biceps curl on maximum strength and muscle size changes.

What the research says

Supports is higher

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Supports
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Challenges
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Cause and effect
1 study reviewed
In plain English

Training your right arm alone makes your right arm stronger, but doesn’t help your left arm get stronger — the benefit stays on the side you trained.

See the scientific wording

In untrained young women, unilateral biceps curl training improves unilateral strength in the trained right arm but not the left arm, suggesting asymmetrical neural adaptations that do not generalize across limbs.

What the research says

1 study

  1. Study: Small muscle mass exercise enhances muscular adaptations? Effects of unilateral and bilateral biceps curl on maximum strength and muscle size changes.

    When young women trained only one arm with dumbbells, that arm got stronger, but the other arm didn’t—meaning the brain learned to use the trained arm better, but didn’t pass that skill to the other arm.

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