ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
"Just One More Rep!" - Ability to Predict Proximity to Task Failure in Resistance Trained Persons.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Accuracy in Predicting Repetitions to Task Failure in Resistance Exercise: A Scoping Review and Exploratory Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- The Effect of Proximity-To-Failure on Perceptual Responses to Resistance Training.European journal of sport science · 2025Trial
- The effect of repetition tempo on cardiovascular and metabolic stress when time under tension is matched during lower body exercise.European journal of applied physiology · 2022Trial
- Elbow Flexor Adaptations to Failure Versus Repetitions-in-Reserve Training: A Unilateral Within-Participant Study in Resistance-Trained Adults.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Objective Accuracy in Estimating Repetitions in Reserve in the Back Squat: An Analysis between Experienced vs. Novice Subjects.Journal of human kinetics · 2026Article
- Effects of Caffeine on Voluntary Force Estimation During Isometric Exercises.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing a load and volume autoregulation integrated velocity model to minimize neuromuscular fatigue and maximize neuromuscular adaptations in resistance training.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Review
- How long can you hold on? Physical self-efficacy predicts performance estimation accuracy independent of leisure-time physical activity.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Feasibility and Usefulness of Repetitions-In-Reserve Scales for Selecting Exercise Intensity: A Scoping Review.Perceptual and motor skills · 2024Article
- Effect of warm-up protocols using lower and higher loads on multiple-set back squat volume-load.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Influence of Resistance Training Proximity-to-Failure, Determined by Repetitions-in-Reserve, on Neuromuscular Fatigue in Resistance-Trained Males and Females.Sports medicine - open · 2023Article
- Intensity of effort and momentary failure in resistance training: Are we asking a binary question for a continuous variable?Journal of sport and health science · 2022Article
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10 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
In resistance training, the use of predicting proximity to momentary task failure (MF, i.e., maximum effort), and repetitions in reserve scales specifically, is a growing approach to monitoring and controlling effort. However, its validity is reliant upon accuracy in the ability to predict MF which may be affected by congruence of the perception of effort compared with the actual effort required. The present study examined participants with at least 1 year of resistance training experience predicting their proximity to MF in two different experiments using a deception design. Within each experiment participants performed four trials of knee extensions with single sets (i.e., bouts of repetitions) to their self-determined repetition maximum (sdRM; when they predicted they could not complete the next repetition if attempted and thus would reach MF if they did) and MF (i.e., where despite attempting to do so they could not complete the current repetition). For the first experiment (
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