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Strong Support
Even if you've been lifting weights for a year, you might still not be good at guessing how many reps you have left in the tank, because people in a study kept thinking they could do more than they actually could.
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“Just One More Rep!” – Ability to Predict Proximity to Task Failure in Resistance Trained Persons
Cross-Sectional Study
Human
2020The study shows that even after a year of weight training, people still can't accurately guess when they're about to fail a lift, which matches the claim.
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