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Journal article · 2025

Effectiveness of Painful Versus Nonpainful Exercise on Pain Intensity, Disability, and Other Patient-Reported Outcomes in Adults With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: An Updated Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis

Ivy Tran, Mitchell T. Gibbs, Nathan Yu, et al.

Journal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy

Does exercise have to hurt to help adults with persistent muscle or joint pain? Across 16 trials, researchers found no clear difference between painful and nonpainful exercise for pain intensity or disability in the short, medium…

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Journal article · 2017

Effectiveness of Resistance Circuit-Based Training for Maximum Oxygen Uptake and Upper-Body One-Repetition Maximum Improvements: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Muñoz-Martínez FA, Rubio-Arias JA, Ramos-Campo DJ, et al.

Sports Med

Can one resistance circuit improve both aerobic fitness and strength? Combining studies in healthy adults, the authors found improvements in maximum oxygen use and the heaviest bench press completed once. They reported average increases of about…

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Journal article · 2003

Effectiveness of cycle cross-training between competitive seasons in female distance runners

Lesley J. White, Rudolph H. Dressendorfer, Susan M. Muller, et al.

The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Can competitive runners substitute cycling between seasons while retaining performance? Eleven collegiate female distance runners were randomly assigned to running alone or replacing half their running training volume with cycling for five weeks. Both groups trained…

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Journal article · 2002

Effects of Editorial Peer Review: A Systematic Review

Tom Jefferson, Philip Alderson, Elizabeth Wager, et al.

JAMA

Systematic review of comparative studies in biomedical publishing; accessible full text reviewed. How much reassurance should the words “peer reviewed” give you about a health study? Researchers examined whether journal assessment by other experts improved reviews…

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Journal article · 2018

Effects of Exercise on the Resting Heart Rate: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Interventional Studies

Anne Kerstin Reimers, Guido Knapp, Carl-Detlev Reimers

Journal of Clinical Medicine

A resting pulse can change with regular exercise, but the type of activity matters. The researchers combined controlled exercise studies involving 12,952 participants described as healthy. Endurance training and yoga produced the clearest overall reductions. For…

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Journal article · 2021

Effects of Resistance Circuit-Based Training on Body Composition, Strength and Cardiorespiratory Fitness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Domingo Jesús Ramos-Campo, Luis Andreu Caravaca, Alejandro Martínez-Rodríguez, et al.

Biology

A resistance circuit can target more than one part of fitness within the same format. Across 45 studies in healthy adults, researchers examined routines that moved through several resistance exercises with limited rest. Reported before-to-after averages…

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Journal article · 2019

Effects of different strength training volumes and subsequent detraining on strength performance in aging adults

Ewertton de Souza Bezerra, Fernando Diefenthaeler, Raphael Luiz Sakugawa, et al.

Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies

A smaller lifting workload may still produce useful gains, but how much remains after training stops? Researchers randomly assigned 18 healthy, untrained middle-aged adults to lower- or higher-volume seated-row training twice weekly for 12 weeks. The…

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