- Feb 2025
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potential
These researches did a very good job not jumping to conclusions and using language like "potential", "may be", etc.
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4.2 Influence of Different Velocity Loss Thresholds on Muscle Hypertrophy
This section relates to fatigue (muscular / local + systemic) which is discussed in exercise physiology :)
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however, our sub-group analyses found no evidence to support that RT performed to momentary muscular failure [or to set failure (irrespective of the definition applied)] is superior to non-failure RT for muscle hypertrophy and (ii) higher velocity loss thresholds, and thus, theoretically closer proximities-to-failure, elicit greater muscle hypertrophy but in a non-linear manner.
This aligns with other research on failure training. Because you get diminishing returns when getting closer to muscular failure, it is probably a good idea to get close to but not up to failure to maximize muscle hypertrophy.
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One of the major limitations of these data, however, is that no consensus definition for ‘failure’ exists in the literature
Without a agreed upon definition you add a confounding variable.
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There was a statistically significant advantage for RT performed to set failure versus non-failure on muscle hypertrophy, which was trivial in magnitude
There was a difference but it was "trivial." I think a lot of people would not expect this based on intuition.
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Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines
I never knew there were guidelines to writing meta analyses, but it makes a lot of sense!
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2.1 Research Questions
This is a very in dept research question(s). A lot of articles don't include its own section for the research question.
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