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Mar 31
Our systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the effects of caffeinated chewing gum on muscle strength, endurance and jump performance has just been accepted for publication in @JSCRonline
Cheers to @Jozo_Grgic for a great collab!
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Mar 25
Our new systematic review and meta-regression exploring the relationship between training load and muscle fiber hypertrophy has just been pre-printed. Kudos to @StianLa07849895 and @Jozo_Grgic for awesome collaboration!
You can read the paper here:
sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv…
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Dorian Varović retweeted
6 Sep 2025
New from our group: The first study to investigate hypertrophy in isometric actions vs dynamic actions in an ecologically valid manner in trained lifters. When performed at long muscle lengths, isometric had similar (or better) effects on quad growth💪 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.113…
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12 Oct 2024
We're recruiting participants for our study exploring the effects of isometrics at long muscle lengths vs. full range of motion on hypertrophy. If you're in or near Zagreb and would like to participate or know someone who, shoot me a DM or apply here
tinyurl.com/IsometricsStudy
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7 Oct 2024
Our meta on the effects of muscle length on regional muscle hypertrophy was just pre-printed. Happy to see this finally out and we welcome any feedback pre-review!
sportrxiv.org/index.php/serv…
@BradSchoenfeld @JamesSteeleII @MiloWolf12 @Jozo_Grgic and my supervisor, Pavle Mikulic.
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7 Oct 2024
Finally, if positive effects of training at longer muscle lengths on regional muscle hypertrophy exist, they may be the greatest at the distal sites. However, due to the imprecision in the posterior distributions for effects, our findings should be considered exploratory.
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7 Oct 2024
As of writing this, only 12 studies were conducted on the topic which leaves a ton of work to be done, and we hope that our suggestions for future research on the topic will be helpful for generating ideas.
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7 Oct 2024
Important to note that effect sizes presented in the paper reflect the estimated impact of a mean muscle length difference of ~50% (i.e., the difference between 25% and 75%).
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7 Oct 2024
A unique approach we took was presenting several models with different priors as @JamesSteeleII held far more skeptical belief's about potential effects of different muscle lengths. This will allow readers to interpret the findings based on...well, their own priors ;)
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7 Oct 2024
For our pre-registered model estimates of effects were slightly greater at distal sites (SMD: 0.2), probability of finding a meaningful positive effect and the pooled effects were smaller (50.70-69.78%; SMD: 0.10-0.15) for both mid-belly and proximal sites
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20 Jul 2023
I've been invited on the School of Muscle podcast to discuss our findings from a recent MA on the effects of caffeine on jumping performance in females. Tried to give some cool practical takeaways pertaining to RT as well. :) youtu.be/CRPD53OOQ74
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16 May 2023
Our systematic review and meta-analyis on moderators of caffeine's effects on jumping performance in females was officialy published in the Journal of the American Nutrition Association
Kudos to @Jozo_Grgic for awesome collab once again! :)
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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16 May 2023
3/3 An ergogenic effect of caffeine was consistently found in analyses for testing time of day (morning, evening, mixed morning or evening, or not specified), caffeine dose (≤3 mg/kg or >3 mg/kg) and test type (squat or countermovement jump).
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16 May 2023
2/3 In a subgroup analysis for phase of the menstrual cycle, the ergogenic effects of caffeine on jumping performance were the largest in the follicular phase, possibly due to caffeine attenuating the drop in volintary activation.
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16 May 2023
1/3 We found a small but very precise ergogenic effect of caffeine on vertical jumping performance in females. Similar effect sizes to the ones found in other types of activities examining caffeine's effects.
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8 Feb 2023
Great to see our original paper on ergogenic effects of sodium bicarbonate on resistance exercise published online in @JSCRonline ahead of final publication! 💪
@Jozo_Grgic @BradSchoenfeld
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Dorian Varović retweeted
5 Nov 2022
Our meta-analysis (with @jacksonfyfe, @dlhamilton82, Eric Helms, and @EricTrexler) on the influence of RT proximity-to-failure on muscle hypertrophy is now online and Open Access.
@SportsMedicineJ
link.springer.com/article/10…
What are the takeaways?
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6 Nov 2022
Ergogenic Effects of Caffeine on Ballistic (Throwing) Performance: A Meta-Analytical Review mdpi.com/1869836 #mdpinutrients via @Nutrients_MDPI
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22 Oct 2022
Stoked to have our study accepted in JSCR. We investigated the effects of sodium bicarbonate on quantity and quality parameters in resistance training exercise. Interesting findings. Shout out to @Jozo_Grgic and @BradSchoenfeld for the collaboration! 💪
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