The Claim
In untrained individuals, females accumulate greater total resistance exercise volume than males during 8 weeks of isotonic and eccentric quasi-isometric elbow flexor training, but muscle thickness and estimated one-repetition maximum improve to a similar extent in both sexes.
What the research says
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Over 8 weeks of specific elbow flexor training, untrained women performed more total work than untrained men, but both groups gained the same amount of muscle thickness and strength.
See the scientific wording
In untrained individuals, females accumulate greater total resistance exercise volume than males during 8 weeks of isotonic and eccentric quasi-isometric elbow flexor training, but this does not result in significantly greater improvements in muscle thickness or estimated one-repetition maximum.
When women do more reps than men during arm training, their muscles still grow and get stronger at the same rate because their muscle cells respond to the workload with the same level of protein building and nerve signals as men, even though they do more work.
What the research says
1 studyWomen did more arm exercises than men during an 8-week training program, but both ended up with the same muscle growth and strength gains — meaning doing more reps doesn’t always mean better results.
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