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Lifting weights makes your muscles start building more protein right after the workout, and mixing up your routine a little bit gives your muscles a tiny extra boost right after lifting—but in the long run, both routines build about the same amount of muscle.

Context Details

Domain

exercise_science

Population

human

Subject

trained young men

Action

increases

Target

myofibrillar protein synthesis rates

Intervention Details

Type: exercise

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Evidence from Studies

Supporting (1)

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Myofibrillar protein synthesis and muscle hypertrophy individualised responses to systematically changing resistance training variables in trained young men.

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2019 Sep 1

The study found that changing up your workout routine slightly makes your muscles produce more protein right after exercise, but it doesn’t make your muscles grow bigger than doing the same routine over time. So, more protein activity doesn’t always mean more muscle growth.

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No contradicting evidence found

Source Study

Myofibrillar protein synthesis and muscle hypertrophy individualised responses to systematically changing resistance training variables in trained young men.

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DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00350.2019

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People respond to weight training in wildly different ways—some grow muscles a lot, others hardly at all—and those differences between people are about 40 times bigger than the tiny differences you’d see if you trained one leg harder than the other in the same person.

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