ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)1999
Concurrent strength and endurance training. A review.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 1999. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
78 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effects of concurrent training on body composition, metabolic, and inflammatory in postmenopausal women: a meta-analysis.BMC women's health · 2026Pooled it
- Perspectives on Concurrent Strength and Endurance Training in Healthy Adult Females: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Concurrent Strength and Endurance Training: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on the Impact of Sex and Training Status.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of Concurrent Strength and HIIT-Based Endurance Training on Physical Fitness in Trained Team Sports Players: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Development of Maximal Dynamic Strength During Concurrent Resistance and Endurance Training in Untrained, Moderately Trained, and Trained Individuals: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of Strength Training on Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Variables in Distance Runners: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- The Impact of Resistance Training on Swimming Performance: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- Effects of exercise on neuromuscular junction components across age: systematic review of animal experimental studies.BMC research notes · 2015Pooled it
- The development, retention and decay rates of strength and power in elite rugby union, rugby league and American football: a systematic review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2013Pooled it
- A systematic review of effects of concurrent strength and endurance training on the health-related quality of life and cardiopulmonary status in patients with HIV/AIDS.BioMed research international · 2013Pooled it
- Effect of respiratory muscle training on exercise performance in healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2012Pooled it
- Concurrent training effects on H reflex, V wave and contractile properties of the plantar flexors: insights into different resistance training types.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Trial
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- Effects of Running-Specific Strength Training, Endurance Training, and Concurrent Training on Recreational Endurance Athletes' Performance and Selected Anthropometric Parameters.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- High-intensity leg cycling alters the molecular response to resistance exercise in the arm muscles.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
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- Combined effects of very short "all out" efforts during sprint and resistance training on physical and physiological adaptations after 2 weeks of training.European journal of applied physiology · 2019Trial
- Maximum Strength Development and Volume-Load during Concurrent High Intensity Intermittent Training Plus Strength or Strength-Only Training.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2018Trial
- High intensity interval training does not impair strength gains in response to resistance training in premenopausal women.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Trial
18 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
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Abstract
Concurrent strength and endurance training appears to inhibit strength development when compared with strength training alone. Our understanding of the nature of this inhibition and the mechanisms responsible for it is limited at present. This is due to the difficulties associated with comparing results of studies which differ markedly in a number of design factors, including the mode, frequency, duration and intensity of training, training history of participants, scheduling of training sessions and dependent variable selection. Despite these difficulties, both chronic and acute hypotheses have been proposed to explain the phenomenon of strength inhibition during concurrent training. The chronic hypothesis contends that skeletal muscle cannot adapt metabolically or morphologically to both strength and endurance training simultaneously. This is because many adaptations at the muscle level observed in response to strength training are different from those observed after endurance training. The observation that changes in muscle fibre type and size after concurrent training are different from those observed after strength training provide some support for the chronic hypothesis. The acute hypothesis contends that residual fatigue from the endurance component of concurrent training compromises the ability to develop tension during the strength element of concurrent training. It is proposed that repeated acute reductions in the quality of strength training sessions then lead to a reduction in strength development over time. Peripheral fatigue factors such as muscle damage and glycogen depletion have been implicated as possible fatigue mechanisms associated with the acute hypothesis. Further systematic research is necessary to quantify the inhibitory effects of concurrent training on strength development and to identify different training approaches that may overcome any negative effects of concurrent training.
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