Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2011
An examination of the time course of training-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 86 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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86 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Patterns of responses and time-course of changes in muscle size and strength during low-load blood flow restriction resistance training in women.European journal of applied physiology · 2021Trial
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- The time course of short-term hypertrophy in the absence of eccentric muscle damage.European journal of applied physiology · 2017Trial
- The effect of exercise hypertrophy and disuse atrophy on muscle contractile properties: a mechanomyographic analysis.European journal of applied physiology · 2016Trial
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- Mechanochemical modeling of exercise-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- The effect of blood flow restriction resistance exercise on arm muscle strength and isokinetic contraction parameters.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Early Phase Adaptations in Strength, Muscle Size, and Co-activation Following Resistance Training in Untrained Women.International journal of exercise science · 2026Article
- Muscle Hypertrophy, Strength, and Salivary Hormone Changes Following 9 Weeks of High- or Low-Load Resistance Training.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Skeletal muscle hypertrophy is typically considered to be a slow process. However, this is partly because the time course for hypertrophy has not been thoroughly examined. The purpose of this study was to use weekly testing to determine a precise time course of skeletal muscle hypertrophy during a resistance training program. Twenty-five healthy, sedentary men performed 8 weeks of high-intensity resistance training. Whole muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) of the dominant thigh was assessed using a peripheral quantitative computed tomography scanner during each week of training (W1-W8). Isometric maximum voluntary contractions (MVC) were also measured each week. After only two training sessions (W1), the mean thigh muscle CSA increased by 5.0 cm(2) (3.46%; p < 0.05) from the pre-testing (P1) and continued to increase with each testing session. It is possible that muscular edema may have influenced the early CSA results. To adjust for this possibility, with edema assumedly at its highest at W1, the next significant increase from W1 was at W3. W4 was the first significant increase of MVC over P1. Therefore, significant skeletal muscle hypertrophy likely occurred around weeks 3-4. Overall, from the pre-testing to W8, there was an increase of 13.9 cm(2) (9.60%). These findings suggested that training-induced skeletal muscle hypertrophy may occur early in a training program.
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