Rhonda Patrick· PhD
Women get the same amount of muscle growth as men do. But they had less muscle to start with because, you know, boys and girls are like this.
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Women get the same amount of muscle growth as men do. But they had less muscle to start with because, you know, boys and girls are like this.
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so there studies showing that women build the same amount of men as a percentage of the starting lead Mass so what I mean by that is if your starting lead mass as a woman is 50 kg and my starting lean mass as a man is 70 kg and we both resistance train we both put on like say 10% lean mass the woman will gain five kilos the man will gain seven the man gained more absolute lean mass but they both gained the same percentage of their starting lean mass
and we actually see that even with like strength too that that women kind of as a starting percentage of their one rep max gain similar strength as men in fact it might be a little bit better to be honest but that also could be that women have a lower Baseline because they're not on a population level lifting weights as much