Drop Sets: Same Muscle Growth in a Third of the Time - With One Regional Bonus

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Drop sets are the bodybuilder's answer to a short session: lift to failure, strip the load, keep going. The claim has always been that the extra reps beyond failure squeeze out more growth. The trials say something different and, for most people, more useful - drop sets do not grow more muscle than ordinary sets, they grow the same muscle far faster.

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