The Overload Principle

All of the studies that they included here had at least one intermediate sort of strength assessment in the study. The average testing time interval was every about every three weeks. On average, the mean time point for where strength increase was recorded was 4.3 weeks and the range of strength for how long it took for strength to increase was 1 to 12 weeks. And this seemed to indicate to the authors that strength needs frequent monitoring in order to appropriately dose the load on the bar,.

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