Range of Motion and Muscle Growth: Long Beats Short, Full Beats Partial - and Lengthened Partials Roughly Tie

How far you move a load, and where in the movement your muscle is longest, have become one of the most discussed variables in hypertrophy training. The gym version of the argument is "full range or lengthened partials". The evidence version is more careful: the range that grows muscle is the one that includes the stretched position, and beyond that the differences shrink.

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