2.1. Participants
Young healthy volunteers aged 18–35 years with at least six months of strength training experience at a local gym (Häsler Vital Center, Horb am Neckar, Germany) were recruited. Another requirement was that both the leg press and bench press were a regular part of the training routine. For the bench press exercise, this was ensured via the classification according to Santos Jr. The participants had to be at least at an intermediate level [