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Fig 1.

Study design.

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Table 1.

Weight-lifting training program and tapering period as followed over 12 weekends.

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Fig 2.

Percentage changes of upper limb power at T1, and T2 for Experimental (E) and Control (C) groups.

T0: before training; T1: after 10 weeks of resistance training; T2: after 2 weeks of tapering; L.L: lower limb; ***: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.001.

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Fig 3.

Percentage changes of power of upper limb at T1, and T2 for Experimental (E) and Control (C) groups.

T0: before training; T1: after 10 weeks of resistance training; T2: after 2 weeks of tapering; U.L: upper limb; *: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.05; **: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.01.

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Percentage changes of vertical jump height at T1, and T2 for Experimental (E) and Control (C) groups.

T0: before training; T1: after 10 weeks of resistance training; T2: after 2 weeks of tapering; CMJ: Counter-movement Jump; SJ: Squat Jump; *: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.05; ***: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.001.

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Fig 5.

Percentage change of ball throwing velocity at T1, and T2 for Experimental (E) and Control (C) groups.

T0: before training; T1: after 10 weeks of resistance training; T2: after 2 weeks of tapering; ***: ANOVA group x time interaction significantly different between E and C at the level of p < 0.001.

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Table 2.

Comparison between the experimental and control groups before and after 10-week training period (examination 1 vs. 2).

Significant interaction effects and effect sizes are highlighted in bold.

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Table 3.

Comparison between experimental and control groups before and after the 2-week tapering period (examination 2 vs. 3).

Significant interaction effects and both effect sizes are highlighted in bold.

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Table 4.

Effectiveness of various types of training and tapering phases on performance of different level and sport practice athletes.

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