Strength training: squats in a smith machine with 50% 3-RM, 62.5% 3-RM, and 75% 3-RM
All participants took part in a warm up-period lasting 5 min on a bicycle ergometer (100 W; 75 rpm) at each training session, followed by one set of 10 repetitions without external load, five repetitions with 50% of the subsequent testing load and 3 repetitions with 75% of the subsequent load. For each training session three sets of 10 repetitions were completed for each load with a 4-min rest period between each setshows the timeline of measurements (