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Your muscles adapt to hard eccentric exercise faster than you think—after just 10 weekly sessions, they stop showing any signs of damage.

Scientific Claim

The repeated bout effect in eccentric exercise occurs rapidly in healthy young men, with full adaptation to biomarker response achieved within 10 weekly sessions of maximal isokinetic training.

Original Statement

“During the nine following sessions, this effect progressively diminished, while after the 10th week of training, no alterations in muscle damage biomarkers were observed after either exercise protocol.”

From study:Eccentric exercise per se does not affect muscle damage biomarkers: early and late phase adaptations

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appropriately stated

Study Design Support

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Assessment Explanation

The repeated-measures RCT design with clear temporal progression supports definitive description of the adaptation timeline observed.

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Eccentric exercise per se does not affect muscle damage biomarkers: early and late phase adaptations

Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2021 Feb

After doing intense leg exercises once, your muscles get sore and damaged—but after doing them 10 times, your body gets used to it and stops getting sore or damaged, even though you're still working just as hard.

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Source Study

Eccentric exercise per se does not affect muscle damage biomarkers: early and late phase adaptations

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DOI: 10.1007/s00421-020-04528-w

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