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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Sports Act. Living
Sec. Elite Sports and Performance Enhancement
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fspor.2024.1467348
This article is part of the Research Topic Strength Training and Performance Optimization: The Triad of Physical, Psychological, and Physiological Excellence View all 7 articles

Cluster sets lead to better performance maintenance and minimize traininginduced fatigue than traditional sets

Provisionally accepted
José Antonio Páez-Maldonado José Antonio Páez-Maldonado *Pedro Jesús Cornejo-Daza Pedro Jesús Cornejo-Daza Juan Sánchez-Valdepeñas Juan Sánchez-Valdepeñas Miguel Sánchez-Moreno Miguel Sánchez-Moreno FRANCISCO JOSÉ PIQUERAS SANCHIZ FRANCISCO JOSÉ PIQUERAS SANCHIZ Manuel Ortega-Becerra Manuel Ortega-Becerra Fernando Pareja-Blanco Fernando Pareja-Blanco
  • Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

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    The aim of this study was to examine the acute effects on mechanical, neuromuscular, metabolic, and muscle contractile responses to different set configurations in full-squat (SQ). Twenty-two men performed three SQ sessions that consisted of 3 sets of 12 repetitions with 60% 1RM with 4 minutes inter-set rests: a) traditional set (TS): no rest within the set; b) cluster-6 (CS6): a 30 seconds intraset rest after the 6th repetition of each set; and c) cluster-2 (CS2): a 30 seconds intraset rest every 2 repetitions. Mechanical (i.e., force, velocity, and power) and electromyography (EMG) values were recorded for every repetition. A battery of tests was performed: a) tensiomyography (TMG), b) blood lactate c), countermovement jump (CMJ), d) maximal isometric SQ, and e) performance with the load that resulted in a velocity of 1 m·s−1 at baseline (V1-load). Repeated measured ANOVA analyses were used to compare the 3 protocols. As the number of intraset rests increased (TS

    Keywords: Resistance Training, velocity-based training, Lactate, Electromyography, Tensiomyography

    Received: 19 Jul 2024; Accepted: 20 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Páez-Maldonado, Cornejo-Daza, Sánchez-Valdepeñas, Sánchez-Moreno, SANCHIZ, Ortega-Becerra and Pareja-Blanco. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: José Antonio Páez-Maldonado, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Sevilla, Spain

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