Does Tempo Impact Strength and Muscle Gains?

Dissecting an old idea to see how much it matters

Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health
7 min readOct 4, 2023

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“If you want to build muscle, you have to focus on getting a lot of time under tension.”

This is something I used to believe and tell people. If someone wanted to build muscle, I’d have them go much slower during their…

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Dylan Dacosta
In Fitness And In Health

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