The Claim
The dose-response relationship between resistance training volume and strength gains exhibits more pronounced diminishing returns at higher volumes compared to the dose-response relationship between resistance training volume and hypertrophy.
What the research says
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As the amount of resistance training increases, strength gains improve less with each additional set compared to muscle size gains, which continue to increase more steadily.
See the scientific wording
The dose-response relationship between resistance training volume and strength gains differs from that with hypertrophy, with strength exhibiting more pronounced diminishing returns at higher volumes.
When you lift weights, your nervous system gets better at recruiting muscle fibers at first, but this improvement slows down quickly. Meanwhile, your muscles keep getting bigger even after the nervous system stops improving much, so strength stops rising as fast as muscle size.
What the research says
1 studyWhen you lift weights more often, your muscles keep growing even with lots of sets, but your strength gains slow down much faster — after a certain point, doing more sets gives you way less extra strength than extra muscle.
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