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Although the details of how it actually occurs at still unknown, muscles react to resistance or weight training by becoming stronger and usually larger. The important point is that weight lifting stimulates growth; in other words, the growth does not occur in the gym but afterwards during recovery as your body adapts to the increased demands you have put on it.


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