The College reads critically, summarizes honestly, and helps professionals translate scholarship into better judgment.
Enter the reading roomThe ACFP reading room connects practitioners directly to consequential scholarship rather than filtering every source through marketing copy. Each entry links to the issuing institution, PubMed record, or open-access article.
Our summaries are orientation, not substitution. Members should read the underlying work, examine methods and limitations, and resist the professional temptation to turn a qualified finding into a universal commandment.
A curated starting collection for professional study. Links open the original guideline, index record, or full-text publication.
The principal federal synthesis of evidence-based physical activity recommendations for Americans across the lifespan, including aerobic activity, muscle strengthening, sedentary behavior, and special populations.
Global recommendations for children, adults, older adults, pregnant and postpartum women, people with chronic conditions, and people living with disability, with explicit attention to sedentary behavior.
The evidence annex supporting the WHO recommendations. Useful for professionals who want to examine how guideline conclusions were developed rather than stopping at the headline recommendations.
A foundational position stand addressing loading, exercise sequence, frequency, progression, hypertrophy, strength, power, and muscular endurance. Its lasting value is the framework; individual prescriptions should be read alongside newer evidence.
A meta-regression examining the relationship between weekly resistance-training volume and muscle growth. It supports a dose-response relationship while leaving important room for individual tolerance and program context.
Higher and lower loads produced broadly similar hypertrophy in the included literature, while higher loads produced greater improvements in maximal and isometric strength. The goal determines what ‘optimal’ means.
The pooled evidence did not show a significant overall advantage for training to failure for strength or hypertrophy. Effort matters, but momentary failure is not a universal requirement.
Across 49 studies, protein supplementation modestly enhanced gains in strength and fat-free mass during prolonged resistance training. The analysis identified an estimated intake breakpoint near 1.6 g/kg/day for additional fat-free-mass benefit.
An open-access review and position stand addressing daily intake, dose, timing, protein quality, age, energy restriction, and practical application for exercising populations.
Observational evidence associated resistance training with lower all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality risk. The nonlinear dose-response and observational design counsel against turning association into simplistic prescription.
Across long-term randomized trials, exercise reduced the risk of being a faller and an injurious faller. Multicomponent programs including balance work emerged as especially relevant.
An analysis of digital and face-to-face interventions identifying potentially useful techniques such as goal setting, graded tasks, social incentives, self-monitoring, and behavioral rehearsal, while emphasizing limits in the evidence.
ACFP summaries are educational commentary, not clinical guidance. Inclusion does not imply endorsement of every conclusion, method, or recommendation.
ACFP ReviewThe Review will publish evidence translations, professional essays, research commentary, standards, position statements, case discussions, and selected original work relevant to fitness practice and professional development.
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