Table 1.
Participant characteristics at baseline for each training group.
Table 2.
Overview of the training intervention.
The AEL and AEL-ATH groups performed leg press exercise with an augmented eccentric (ECC) phase (the ECC intensity was set relative to maximum ECC strength). The TRAD group performed leg press exercise in a traditional manner where both concentric (CON) and ECC phases were prescribed to CON repetition maximum strength.
Fig 1.
Relative changes (± 95% confidence intervals) in strength following training with (AEL, AEL-ATH) and without (TRAD) augmented eccentric loading.
Shaded bars represent the measurement error for each outcome measure. a, different from TRAD, b, different from AEL (p < 0.05).
Table 3.
ANOVA model statistics, and changes in strength diagnostics following training with (AEL, AEL-ATH) and without (TRAD) augmented eccentric loading.
Significant pre- to post-training changes within-group are denoted with * (p < 0.05).