Research
Adherence
Providing feedback chronically across a training cycle leads to greater improvements in sprint performance and potentially jump performance compared to training without feedback.
If you are following a multi-week resistance training program, consider using feedback (visual or verbal) consistently. This may help you improve your sprint speed and jump height more than training without feedback.
ModerateQualifiesMEDIUM confidence
For chronic outcomes, jump performance might have been positively influenced (g = 0.39, 95% CI − 0.20 to 0.99) and short sprint performance was likely enhanced (g = 0.47, 95% CI 0.10–0.84) to a greater extent when feedback is provided throughout a training cycle.
Why this rating
Meta-analysis of chronic outcomes with limited number of studies (7) and some non-significant results.
Source
The Effect of Feedback on Resistance Training Performance and Adaptations: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Jonathon Weakley et al. · Sports Medicine · 2023
DOI 10.1007/s40279-023-01877-2
Meta-analysis · 20 studiesCited 66×
Read the paper DOI resolved against Crossref · corpus check 2026-06-10
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