“…Fifteen other articles were removed because of the following reasons: (a) did not include control group (Brinkmann et al, 2022[ 13 ]; Dünnwald et al, 2019[ 21 ]; Norheim et al, 2014[ 56 ]; Otero-Díaz et al, 2018[ 59 ]; Rashid et al, 2020[ 64 ]; Sari-Sarraf et al, 2017[ 69 ]; Tsuchiya et al, 2015[ 75 ]; Winn et al, 2017[ 78 ]), (b) participants with mean age <18 years (Archundia-Herrera et al, 2017[ 3 ]; Blizzard LeBlanc et al, 2017[ 9 ]; Dundar et al, 2021[ 20 ]), (c) acute trials (a training period less than two weeks or performing only an acute exercise testing) (Kraemer et al, 2014[ 45 ]; Tsuchiya et al, 2014[ 74 ]), (d) lack of access to data (Hecksteden et al, 2013[ 32 ]; Micielska et al, 2019[ 49 ]). Twenty-four articles (Amanat et al, 2020[ 2 ]; Azimi Rashti et al, 2019[ 6 ]; Bagheri et al, 2020[ 7 ]; Banitalebi et al, 2019[ 8 ]; Bonfante et al, 2017[ 10 ]; Briken et al, 2016[ 12 ]; Dianatinasab et al, 2020[ 19 ]; Enteshary et al, 2019[ 24 ]; Ghanbari-Niaki et al, 2018[ 29 ]; Jafari et al, 2020[ 37 ]; Jaffari et al, 2020[ 38 ]; Kim et al, 2016[ 42 ]; Korkmaz et al, 2019[ 44 ]; Miyamoto-Mikami et al, 2015[ 50 ]; Motahari Rad et al, 2020[ 52 ]; Murawska-Cialowicz et al, 2020[ 54 ]; Nazari et al, 2017[ 55 ]; Pekkala et al, 2013[ 61 ]; Poutafkand et al, 2020[ 62 ]; Rezaeimanesh, 2020[ 65 ]; Safarimosavi et al, 2021[ 67 ]; Scharhag-Rosenberger et al, 2014[ 70 ]; Tofighi et al, 2017[ 73 ]; Zhao et al, 2017[ 80 ]) met our inclusion criteria and were entered in the meta-analysis (PRISMA flow diagram; Figure 1 (Fig. 1) ).…”