Can you gain muscle just by increasing reps and without increasing the amount of weight you put on the bar? New research suggests that it’s possible. The researchers concluded:
Both progressions of repetitions and load appear to be viable strategies for enhancing muscular adaptations over an 8-week training cycle, which provides trainers and trainees with another promising approach to programming resistance training.
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Physical Therapy Treatments that Help Patellofemoral Pain
Interventions for persistent patellofemoral pain (PFP) that improved pain and function outcomes short-term follow up included:
knee-targeted exercise,
combined interventions,
foot orthoses,
lower quadrant manual therapy,
knee-targeted exercise combined with perineural dextrose injection, and
hip-and-knee-targeted exercise.
These interventions should be offered to people with persistent patellofemoral pain. No intervention demonstrated efficacy beyond a short-term follow up.
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