Current results suggest that complex training is not an efficient strategy to acutely improve bench-press throw power output performance. Based on what is known now, there seems to be no significant additional benefit in using complex training when the target is the upper-body type of activity.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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A. L. Gouvêa was supported by a grant from Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq), Ministry of Education, Brazil. P.S.C. Gomes was supported by a research grant (n. E-26/111.622/2010) from Fundação para Apoio à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ) and is currently supported by a Productivity Research Grant from CNPq. The authors have no conflicts of interest directly relevant to the content of this review.
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