Whether you're working your quads, calves, or biceps, stretching them fully during exercises helps them grow bigger — this works for many different muscles, not just one.

When you stretch your muscles fully during workouts, the ends of the muscles grow more than the middle parts — the stretch makes the muscle ends bulk up more than the center.

Even the middle parts of your muscles grow more when you stretch them fully during workouts — it’s not just the ends that benefit from full range of motion.

When you do strength exercises where your muscles are stretched the most (like lowering a weight fully), you build more muscle than when you only move partway through the motion, no matter which muscle you're working.

Even though muscles might grow a tiny bit more at the far end when stretched more, it’s so small that it doesn’t really matter in practice — all parts grow about the same.

People grow muscle at very different rates — but each person tends to grow their arms and legs similarly, no matter what weight they use. This means your genes and biology matter more than how heavy your weights are.