mechanistic
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If you make one leg of a rat work hard by stretching its muscles on purpose, the other leg doesn’t get stronger or less sore—even if you repeat the workout many times. It’s like training your right arm but expecting your left arm to benefit too, and it doesn’t.
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The contralateral repeated bout effect is not caused by adaptations in skeletal muscle.
Randomized Controlled Trial
Animal
2025 Sep 1When rats exercised one leg repeatedly, the other leg didn’t get stronger or less damaged — meaning the protection from repeated exercise doesn’t spread to the other side of the body.
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