Working out with weights three times a week for 10 weeks makes you better at doing more reps — but how much better depends on whether you used heavy or light weights.

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Higher- and lower-load resistance exercise training induce load-specific local muscle endurance changes in young women: a randomised trial.

Randomized Controlled Trial

Human

2022 Dec 1

When women trained with heavy weights, they got better at lifting heavy weights; when they trained with light weights, they got better at lifting light weights—so the type of training shaped what they got better at.

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Higher- and lower-load resistance exercise training induce load-specific local muscle endurance changes in young women: a randomised trial.

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DOI: 10.1139/apnm-2022-0263

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