The Claim
In untrained individuals, females accumulate greater total resistance exercise volume than males during 8 weeks of isotonic and eccentric quasi-isometric training of the elbow flexors, but this does not result in significantly greater improvements in muscle thickness or strength.
What the research says
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Over an 8-week training program targeting the elbow flexors, untrained females performed more total resistance exercise volume than untrained males, but both groups showed similar increases in muscle thickness and strength.
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In untrained individuals, females accumulate greater total resistance exercise volume than males during 8 weeks of isotonic and eccentric quasi-isometric training of the elbow flexors, but this does not result in significantly greater improvements in muscle thickness or strength.
Even though women do more total work during training, their muscles grow and get stronger at the same rate as men because both sexes reach a similar biological limit for how much muscle can adapt in a short time, regardless of how much extra effort is put in.
What the research says
1 studyIn this study, women did more total lifting than men over 8 weeks, but both men and women ended up with similar muscle growth and strength gains — so doing more work didn’t give women an extra advantage.
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