Could three seconds a day of resistance exercise really increase muscular strength?
That question was at the heart of a small-scale new study of almost comically brief weight training.
In the study, men and women who contracted their arm muscles as hard as possible for a total of three seconds a day increased their biceps strength by as much as 12 percent after a month.
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