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A groundbreaking new study has shown how you can increase muscle growth while spending half the amount of time in the gym.

The study, authored by Edith Cowan University professor Ken Nosaka, found that eccentric muscle contractions – the contractions that occur when a muscle is lengthened as the weight is lower – are more effective at building size.

Further, the study, which was published in the European Journal of Applied Physiology, found that muscle gains could be made doing half the number of repetitions.

In the study, groups of people performed three different curl exercises twice a week for five weeks as well as another group who did no exercise.

One group performed eccentric-only or lowering exercises, a second group performed concentric or lifting exercises and the third group performed both concentric and eccentric exercises – but the eccentric group did half the amount of repetitions as the other groups.