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New Info | Building Muscle Without Adding Weight? | A New Approach

Sports Training Tips

Can you gain muscle just by increasing reps and without increasing the amount of weight you put on the bar? New research suggests that it’s possible. The researchers concluded:

Both progressions of repetitions and load appear to be viable strategies for enhancing muscular adaptations over an 8-week training cycle, which provides trainers and trainees with another promising approach to programming resistance training.

 

How to Read a Scientific Paper

Click here to read more about how to evaluate a scientific article.

Click here to read more about how to evaluate a scientific article.

NOTE: make sure you click on the links in the left hand column of this page and scroll down to the information.

 

Physical Therapy Treatments that Help Patellofemoral Pain

Knee Pain | New Science About the Best Treatment Options

Interventions for persistent patellofemoral pain (PFP) that improved pain and function outcomes short-term follow up included:

  • knee-targeted exercise,
  • combined interventions,
  • foot orthoses,
  • lower quadrant manual therapy,
  • knee-targeted exercise combined with perineural dextrose injection, and
  • hip-and-knee-targeted exercise.

These interventions should be offered to people with persistent patellofemoral pain. No intervention demonstrated efficacy beyond a short-term follow up.

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