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Strong v swole: the surprising truth about building muscle (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Runaya@sh.itjust.works to c/fitness@lemmy.world

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[–] undeffeined@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Not quite. You can build muscle size with both low reps (heavy weights) and high reps (light weights) as long as sets are taken close to concentric muscular failure.

Bigger muscles = more potential for strength expression. So you can become stronger with only lifting on higher rep ranges.

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