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ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Loading Recommendations for Muscle Strength, Hypertrophy, and Local Endurance: A Re-Examination of the Repetition Continuum.

Brad J Schoenfeld, Jozo Grgic, Derrick W Van Every, Daniel L Plotkin

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Review in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 149 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Brad J SchoenfeldDepartment of Health Sciences, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4979-5783
Jozo GrgicInstitute for Health and Sport, Victoria University, Melbourne, VIC 8001, Australia.
Derrick W Van EveryDepartment of Health Sciences, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0083-6185
Daniel L PlotkinDepartment of Health Sciences, CUNY Lehman College, Bronx, NY 10468, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loading recommendations for resistance training are typically prescribed along what has come to be known as the "repetition continuum", which proposes that the number of repetitions performed at a given magnitude of load will result in specific adaptations. Specifically, the theory postulates that heavy load training optimizes increases maximal strength, moderate load training optimizes increases muscle hypertrophy, and low-load training optimizes increases local muscular endurance. However, despite the widespread acceptance of this theory, current research fails to support some of its underlying presumptions. Based on the emerging evidence, we propose a new paradigm whereby muscular adaptations can be obtained, and in some cases optimized, across a wide spectrum of loading zones. The nuances and implications of this paradigm are discussed herein.

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high-loadhypertrophylow-loadmuscular endurancestrength

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PMID33671664
PMCPMC7927075

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