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If you lift weights with different levels of effort—whether you stop just before failure or push almost to failure—you’ll still gain about the same amount of strength, as long as you’re doing the same total amount of work and using the same weight.
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Exploring the Dose–Response Relationship Between Estimated Resistance Training Proximity to Failure, Strength Gain, and Muscle Hypertrophy: A Series of Meta-Regressions
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2024 SepThis study found that whether you stop your weightlifting sets far from failure or almost to failure, you still gain about the same amount of strength — as long as you do the same total amount of work and lift similar weights.
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