Statistical analysis
Baseline group characteristics, including SM force–time parameters for the first 450 N trial, were calculated. Age, gender, year of study, as well as peak force, time to peak force and rate of force production were then compared between the 3 groups. Normal distribution was established using the Shapiro-Wilks test and visual inspection. A mixed-model analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to assess Group, Time and Group x Time interaction effects for all SM variables, and a Greenhouse-Houser adjustment was used whenever the assumptions of sphericity were not met. Post-hoc analyses were performed using Tukey’s test.The percentage of accurate estimations (± 10% of the reached peak force), as well as the mean absolute difference between the estimation and the reached peak force were calculated for each participant of the S-A group. The significance level for all analyses was set to p < 0.05. Statistical computations were performed using IBM SPSS Statistics version 28.0.0.