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Your muscles learn to handle hard eccentric moves quickly—after just 10 weekly sessions, they stop getting damaged even if you do them at max effort.

Scientific Claim

The repeated bout effect—reduced muscle damage after prior exposure—is observable within 10 weekly sessions of high-intensity eccentric exercise in healthy young men, with complete adaptation achieved by the final session.

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

Design supports claim

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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, the guys got sore and damaged muscles—but after doing it every week for 10 weeks, their muscles got used to it and stopped getting damaged, proving that repeated exposure helps you adapt quickly.

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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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