ArticleHeliyon2024
Comparing the impact of personal trainer guidance to exercising with others: Determining the optimal approach.
Article in Heliyon, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It carries an expression of concern. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Influence of Chinese university track-and-field coaches' communication ability on student-athletes' sport passion and ego-resilience.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Supervision During Strength Training-the Interplay with Facilitation, Feedback and Attentional Focus: A Narrative Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Similarity Index Values in Fuzzy Logic and the Support Vector Machine Method Applied to the Identification of Changes in Movement Patterns During Biceps-Curl Weight-Lifting Exercise.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
This study aimed to examine the effects of supervised fitness training under the guidance of a personal trainer and those of competitive fitness training with others and reveal the effects of specific differences between them in a detailed manner. The study's participants consisted of 66 healthy male adults (age: 29.2 ± 5.4 years). The participants were divided into three groups: the individual training group (n = 21), which served as the control group; the exercising with a partner group (n = 22); and the group trained by a personal trainer (n = 23). Each participant was subsequently assessed using one repetition maximum bench press, squats, skeletal muscle mass, fat mass, and a questionnaire regarding nutritional plan and injury to compare the effects of training sessions over a period of 12 weeks. Among the three groups, only the group trained by a personal trainer showed an obvious enhancement in fat reduction compared to baseline (-1.61 kg,
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