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When you first start lifting weights, your muscles are mostly fixing tears from the workout—not growing bigger. After a few weeks, they switch from repair mode to growth mode.
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Skeletal muscle and resistance exercise training; the role of protein synthesis in recovery and remodeling.
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2017 Mar 1The study talks about how exercise makes muscles grow, but it doesn’t say whether the first changes are for fixing damage or for making muscles bigger — so we can’t tell if the claim is right or wrong.
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