Seven-Week Accommodating Resistance Training Improves Wingate Peak Power But Not Muscular Strength or Endurance in Strength-Trained Females

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ABSTRACT: Parten, AL, Barker, GA, O'Neal, EK, and Waldman, HS. Seven-week accommodating resistance training improves Wingate peak power but not muscular strength or endurance in strength-trained females. J Strength Cond Res 37(9): 1789-1794, 2023-Accommodating resistance (AR) is a training technique that includes attaching elastic bands or chains to a loaded barbell to alter the resistance profile throughout the barbell movement. This study was the first to quantify the effects of AR versus a traditional resistance (TR) training program on changes in strength and power profiles in a trained female cohort. Resistance-trained (training history: 2.4 ± 1.4 years) females (age: 22.1 ± 3.0 years) completed baseline and postintervention tasks which included 1 repetition maximum (1RM) testing in the back squat (BS) and bench press (BP), a repetitions to failure in the BP (60% of 1RM), and 1 30-s Wingate test. After baseline testing, subjects were stratified (based on relative strength) into either the AR ( n = 9) or TR ( n = 10) group and then completed a supervised, 7-week training intervention. Both groups improved their 1RM in both lifts, but no statistical differences were found between groups in 1RM for BS, BP, or BP to failure ( p > 0.05). However, the AR group increased Wingate peak power (837 ± 221 to 901 ± 215 W; p = 0.04), whereas TR (868 ± 244 to 8,343 ± 182 W; p = 0.47) did not. This study supports AR with lighter relative barbell load incurs similar strength adaptations as TR. For coaches training athletes concerned with power, AR may be advantageous for improving rate of force development as demonstrated by large increases in peak Wingate power.

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:37

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Journal of strength and conditioning research - 37(2023), 9 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 1789-1794

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Englisch

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Parten, Alyssa L [VerfasserIn]
Barker, Gaven A [VerfasserIn]
O'Neal, Eric K [VerfasserIn]
Waldman, Hunter S [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 28.08.2023

Date Revised 28.08.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

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10.1519/JSC.0000000000004473

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NLM356195112