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Why your muscles look bigger after just a few workouts

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The development of skeletal muscle hypertrophy through resistance training: the role of muscle damage and muscle protein synthesis

doi:10.1007/s00421-017-3792-9
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Methodology score · 1/100

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When you start lifting weights, your muscles swell up at first because they get damaged and hold fluid — not because they're growing. After about 10 workouts, they start to grow a little. But real, lasting growth only kicks in after about 18 workouts. Also, you don't need to feel sore to grow...

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Damas F, Libardi CA, Ugrinowitsch C