Can lifting light weights with tight bands build muscle as well as heavy lifting?

For people who train casually, lifting lighter weights more times and lifting heavier weights fewer times produce similar muscle growth if the total work done is the same, but the heavier-weight approach might lead to slightly stronger performance.

For young men who regularly lift weights, the number of sets taken to muscular failure may better predict muscle growth than the total weight lifted or the number of repetitions performed, as long as the total number of sets is the same.

After resistance training, the thickening of the vastus lateralis muscle in young men is not the same along its length: the part closer to the knee grows more than the part closer to the hip.

When healthy young men perform knee extension exercises as part of resistance training, the thickening of the vastus lateralis muscle is greater in the lower part of the muscle than in the upper part.

Using elastic wraps to partially restrict blood flow during high-intensity weight training can lead to similar muscle growth as high-intensity weight training without wraps in healthy young men.