Dataset for: ACUTE ELEVATIONS IN SERUM HORMONES ARE ATTENUATED AFTER CHRONIC TRAINING WITH TRADITIONAL ISOINERTIAL BUT NOT ACCENTUATED ECCENTRIC LOADS IN STRENGTH-TRAINED MEN

It has been proposed that the maintenance of acute hormonal responses reveal an efficacy of a training stimulus to evoke ongoing increases in strength and muscle mass. We previously observed that maximum strength continued to improve throughout a 10-week period in an accentuated eccentric loading group (AEL) but not a traditional isoinertial loading (ISO) group. Therefore, the present study investigated whether the magnitude of acute hormonal responses was greater (i.e. maintained) in AEL compared to ISO at the end of the training period. Subjects in AEL (eccentric load = concentric load + 40%) and ISO performed experimental loading tests (3 sets of 10 repetitions in the leg press and knee …