The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
we get almost all the benefits from pushing either very heavy loads or lighter loads but very close to muscular failure which people have described as unpleasant — a burn in the muscle — a lot of pain — the weights slow down so it takes a lot of psychological effort to keep going
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
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we get almost all the benefits from pushing either very heavy loads or lighter loads but very close to muscular failure which people have described as unpleasant um a burn in the muscle um a lot of pain um the weights slow down so it takes a lot of psychological effort to keep going