Why does low intensity/high rep exercise mostly build muscle size, while high intensity/low rep exercise build mostly muscle strength?

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How does the body know which is which and why does it react this way? What physical changes occur in the muscle when you’re building strength?

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They both build muscle, and they are both important to proper weight training.

They just train different aspects of the muscle, high rep/low intensity increases the muscle’s endurance

While low rep/high intensity increases the muscles “maximum power”

Having one without the other isn’t very useful, and most good work out plans use a mixture of both

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