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 see that if you train your legs your arms don't get bigger we know that um and if you train one leg the other one doesn't get bigger right in fact some of the best resistance training studies are where they use unilateral training and the person's non-trained leg serves as the own individual's control because you're accounting for genetic variations by doing that
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if you train one leg the other one doesn't get bigger right in fact some of the best resistance training studies are where they use unilateral training and the person's non-trained leg serves as the own individual's control because you're accounting for genetic variations by doing that