Why Lifting More Weight Isn’t Always Better for Muscle Growth

Añadido: 2026-05-21

[00:00:00]There is the challenge, especially in young people or young individuals, to see training as a sort of a competition.

[00:00:09]So, the more weight you are capable of moving, the better. There's a character of showing off to a certain point.

[00:00:17]That's not how the muscles or the body adapts to training. Muscle actually doesn't care how much weight is on the plate. It just cares how much tension and how much metabolic disruption occurs within the muscular tissue, within the muscle fibers, because that's what decides what happens afterwards in terms of adaptation. And this is what we actually want to achieve. We want to set a stimulus in each training session for each exercise in order for muscles to be able to grow and to increase their force capability. This and this is totally independent on whether it's 100 lb or 120 lb. It's more about directing tension to those muscles that you actually want to develop, instead of just focusing on the weight that is being moved.