Effect of Concurrent Endurance and Circuit Resistance Training Sequence on Muscular Strength and Power Development
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
- Vol. 22 (4), 1037-1045
- https://doi.org/10.1519/jsc.0b013e31816a4419
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of the sequence order of high-intensity endurance training and circuit training on changes in muscular strength and anaerobic power. Forty-eight physical education students (ages, 21.4 ± 1.3 years) were assigned to 1 of 5 groups: no training controls (C, n = 9), endurance training (E, n = 10), circuit training (S, n = 9), endurance before circuit training in the same session, (E+S, n = 10), and circuit before endurance training in the same session (S+E, n = 10). Subjects performed 2 sessions per week for 12 weeks. Resistance-type circuit training targeted strength endurance (weeks 1-6) and explosive strength and power (weeks 7-12). Endurance training sessions included 5 repetitions run at the velocity associated with V̇o2max (V̇o2max) for a duration equal to 50% of the time to exhaustion at V̇o2max; recovery was for an equal period at 60% V̇o2max. Maximal strength in the half squat, strength endurance in the 1-leg half squat and hip extension, and explosive strength and power in a 5-jump test and countermovement jump were measured pre- and post-testing. No significant differences were shown following training between the S+E and E+S groups for all exercise tests. However, both S+E and E+S groups improved less than the S group in 1 repetition maximum (p \u3c 0.01), right and left 1-leg half squat (p \u3c 0.02), 5-jump test (p \u3c 0.01), peak jumping force (p \u3c 0.05), peak jumping power (p \u3c 0.02), and peak jumping height (p \u3c 0.05). The intrasession sequence did not influence the adaptive response of muscular strength and explosive strength and power. Circuit training alone induced strength and power improvements that were significantly greater than when resistance and endurance training were combined, irrespective of the intrasession sequencingKeywords
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