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No strain, no gain
Vegetarian Times, Jan, 2005
Novice weight lifters don't put enough weight on their barbells to increase the size of their muscles. When they don't see any gain, they're likely to become discouraged and quit, says Stephen Glass, a professor of physiology at Michigan's Grand Valley State University, in The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
To gain muscular definition, Glass says, people need to select weights that are just a little heavier than they feel comfortable lifting and then do repetitions until fatigued. "Fatigue," he adds, "means you lift it until you can't lift anymore." The results of the study were the
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