TY - JOUR AU - Wathen, Dan AB - Sports Med 1999 Jun; 27 (6): 409-416 CORRESPONDENCE 0112-1642/99/0006-0409/$04.00/0 © Adis International Limited. All rights reserved. to show further significant increases in all strength Strength Training: measures over time’. This statement was well docu- mented, with appropriate data, in the presentation Single Versus by Kraemer at the 1995 American College of Sports Multiple Sets Medicine (ACSM) meeting. However, the authors suggest there may be a different interpretation of [1] the abstract statement. We ask the authors why We recently read with interest the article Strength they believe the interpretation would be different. Training: Single Versus Multiple Sets, by Carpinelli An example of incomplete presentation of data [1] [6] and Otto. We find that the article contains several can be found in the study by Borst et al.: the erroneous and misleading statements and that it is abstract for which deals with insulin-like growth substantially flawed. The authors indicate that only factor-I. Strength gains from 1 set versus multiple [2] [3] thestudiesbyBerger andKrameretal. offerevid- sets were also investigated and the poster presen- ence that multiple sets result in superior strength tation clearly stated that the multiple-set group gains compared with single sets (p. 82). A critical produced superior strength gains, TI - Strength Training: Single Versus Multiple Sets JF - Sports Medicine DO - 10.2165/00007256-199927060-00005 DA - 2012-11-27 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/strength-training-single-versus-multiple-sets-23bA4t051Y SP - 409 EP - 412 VL - 27 IS - 6 DP - DeepDyve ER -