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Hypertrophy
No. One is because resistance training is anaerobic. What good would oxygen be? Secondly, your arterial blood is already 98% saturated with oxygen. Thirdly, it is not always the incapability of your body to deliver oxygen, but it is also the incapacity of the muscles to uptake and utilize the oxygen. You lack the cellular adaptations such as, mitochondria and capillary density to use oxygen. You are not out of breath because you need more oxygen to resistance train. You are out of breath because the activity is anaerobic and you are producing metabolic by-products such as co2 and lactic acid. To rid your body of these "toxins" your respiratory rate increases, which buffers these compounds. I could keep going, but the answer is NO.