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Slow lifting makes muscles grow even with light weights
Original Title
Effects of low-intensity resistance exercise with slow movement and tonic force generation on muscular function in young men.
doi:10.1152/JAPPLPHYSIOL.00741.200546%
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Methodology score · 46/100
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People who lifted light weights very slowly for 12 weeks got stronger and their muscles got bigger, but people who lifted the same light weights at normal speed didn't.
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