When male college athletes do heavy squats, their balance gets better over the next day, peaking at 24 hours — and it doesn’t matter how they spaced out their sets, just that time passed.

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Delayed potentiation effect after high-load resistance priming: Effects of rest-redistribution set structures on athletic performance

Randomized Controlled Trial

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2025 Oct

The study found that doing heavy squats helped male college athletes balance better the next day, and this benefit was the same no matter how the sets were structured.

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Delayed potentiation effect after high-load resistance priming: Effects of rest-redistribution set structures on athletic performance

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DOI: 10.1016/j.jesf.2025.10.001

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