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When people who don't usually exercise do seated row exercises, their back and arm muscles work harder as they get tired, showing the body recruits more muscle fibers to keep going.
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The Pre-Exhaustion Method Does Not Increase Muscle Activity in Target Muscle During Strength Training in Untrained Individuals
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2022 AprThe study looked at whether doing an extra exercise first affects muscle activity, but it didn't check if muscle activity goes up during later parts of the main exercise like the claim says, so it doesn't really test the same thing.
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