You might not feel stronger right after this training, but your strength keeps going up for weeks after you stop — the best gains happen when you’re resting.

If you do heavy weight training for eight weeks, your thigh muscles get stronger—no matter if you use a special band to restrict blood flow after your workout or not.

If you lift heavy weights with either short or long breaks between sets—while doing the same total work—you’ll get about the same stronger in your leg muscles after 10 weeks.

When doing intense leg exercises with 5-minute breaks between sets, people can do more total work than with only 2-minute breaks, because their muscles recover better.

To get stronger, it matters more how heavy the weight is than whether you push to your absolute limit—lifting heavier weights makes you stronger, no matter if you stop short of failure.

When untrained men get stronger in a static leg press, the main reason is that their thigh muscle near the hip gets bigger and its fibers angle more, which helps push harder.