Roberto Simão

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..The effect sizes were higher in NLP for the majority of observed variables. In conclusion, both LP and NLP are effective, but NLP may lead to greater gains in 1RM and MT over a 12-week training period...

..When prescribed appropriately with other key prescriptive variables (i.e. load, volume, rest interval between sets and exercises), the exercise order can influence the efficiency, safety and ultimate effectiveness of an RT programme...

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..Strength training may contribute to the development and maintenance of flexibility even without the inclusion of additional stretching, but strength and flexibility can be prescribed together to get optimal improvements in flexibility...

..It was concluded that, at the training intensities tested, 20 minutes of aerobic training may be enough to produce a negative impact on a strength training performance session of physically active elderly women...

..05). The results demonstrated exercise order of small muscle group exercises might be particularly important during the initial stages of strength training in untrained young men...

..The data indicate that in trained women, performance of both large- and small-muscle group exercises is affected by exercise sequence...

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..05). The AST group increased strength and flexibility significantly more than the AA group (p ≤ 0.05) in all but one measurement. This study shows that resistance training can improve flexibility in young sedentary women in 8 weeks...

..Therefore, when considered relative to the volume load completed, 1-minute rest intervals during resistance exercise may invoke greater muscle damage...

..Our findings suggest a potentially positive health benefit of strength training...

..In summary, results indicate that RE intensity affects the duration, but not the magnitude, of the postexercise hypotensive response...

..Although there was no statistically significant difference between periodization models, DUP promoted superior ES gains in muscular maximal and submaximal strength...

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..Therefore, this study provides a contraindication to AAS use, especially in those at increased risk of cardiovascular events...

..The control group showed no significant change in any of the flexibility measures determined. In conclusion, weight training can increase flexibility in previously sedentary middle-aged women in some, but not all joint movements...

..When prescribed appropriately with other important prescriptive variables (i.e. volume and intensity), the amount of rest between sets can influence the efficiency, safety and ultimate effectiveness of a strength training programme...

..However, these differences did not affect the overall Vo2 or EE during sequences performed in the opposite exercise order...

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..The results indicated that the strength training program was efficient in promoting hypertrophy in both muscles, but with dissimilar responses of the pennated and fusiform muscle architecture at different arm sites...

..In conclusion, both multi and single-joint exercises exhibited similar repetition performance patterns and RPE, independent of the rest interval length between sets...

..This decrease in the number of repetitions performed was especially apparent in the third set when an exercise was performed last in an exercise sequence...

..0 ± 6.0 cm; p = 0.04) and DC (33.7 ± 5.5 cm; p = 0.03) with PSC (32.6 ± 5.5 cm). A dynamic stretching intervention appears to be more suitable for use as part of a warm-up in young athletes...

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..Strength and conditioning professionals may want to consider avoiding PNF stretching before activities requiring local muscular endurance performance...