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What twenty-two studies on post-workout sauna show: endurance, weight training recovery, blood pressure, and pitfalls.

Headphones or silence: what twenty-two studies show on reps, maximal strength, sprinting and the enjoyment of effort.

Lunges or squat, single or double-leg press: what twenty-one studies show on muscle, strength, jumping and sprinting.

Linear, undulating or constant program: what twenty-two studies on strength and muscle show.

Thinking about the muscle or the load: what twenty studies show on muscle activity, strength, repetitions, and hypertrophy.

Coffee, caffeine, and creatine taken together: what seventeen studies show on creatine loading, caffeine before effort, and the 1996 rumor.

Drop sets, supersets, rest-pause, cluster sets and pre-exhaustion vs. traditional sets: muscle, strength, session time and fatigue, according to twenty-two studies.

Carbohydrates before and during the training session, glycogen, placebo breakfast, mouth rinse, sugar in the shaker, ketogenic diet: twenty-one studies.

Pushing fast for strength, superslow, tempo and muscle, stopping when the bar slows down, power training after 60: twenty-two studies.

Braking the load yields slightly more strength, not clearly more muscle. Nordic exercise and hamstrings, elderly people, soreness: twenty-two studies.

Losing water through sweat costs a bit of strength and endurance, especially in the heat. Drinking to thirst, coffee, creatine, and the risk of drinking too much: twenty studies.