Studies Sample (age) Training session Time of analysis EPOC (min) Duration of EPOC (min) Magnitude of EPOC (kcal) Elliot et al. [20 ] 4M-T e 5F-T (26 yrs) 4 sets (C), 50% of 1RM (15 rep), RI 30 s and 3 sets (PS) 85% of 1RM (5 rep), RI 90 s (8 exercises) 90 30
and
Murphy and Schwarzkopf [18 ] 10F-T (
yrs) 3 sets (C) 50% of 1RM, RI 30 s and 3 sets (PS) 80% of 1RM, RI 2 min (6 exercises) 20 20 e 15 25* and 14 Melby et al. [11 ] 7M-T (
yrs) 6 sets (PS) 70% of 1RM, RI 3 min and 5 sets (PS) 70% of 1RM, RI 4 min (10 exercises) 900 900 113 and 114 Olds and Abernethy [28 ] 7M-T (
yrs) 2 sets (PS) 75% of 1RM, RI 3.5 min and 2 sets (PS) 60% of 1RM, RI 3.5 min (7 exercises) 300 60
and
Haltom et al. [12 ] 7M-T (
yrs) 2 sets (C) 20 rep with 75% of 20RM, RI 20 s and 2 sets (C) 20 rep with 75% of 20RM, RI 60 s (8 exercises) 60 60 51 ± 2* and
Thornton and Potteiger [26 ] 14F-T (
yrs) 2 sets (PS) 85% of 1RM (8 rep), RI 1 min and 2 sets (PS) 45% of 1RM (15 rep), RI 1 min (9 exercises) 120 20 11.0 ± 1.9* and
Hunter et al. [23 ] 7M-T (
yrs) 2 sets (PS) 8 rep with 65% of 1RM, 1 s conc./1 s exc., RI 1 min and 2 sets (PS) 8 rep with 25% of 1RM, 10 s conc./5 s exc., RI 1 min (10 exercises) 1.320 15 41* and 34 Kang et al. [30 ] 11M-T (
yrs) 4 sets (PS) 60% of 1RM, RI 3 min, 4 sets (PS) 75% of 1RM, RI 3 min and 4 sets (PS) 90% of 1RM, RI 3 min (1 exercise) 40 10
24, 27, and
Haddock and Wilkin [15 ] 15F-T (
yrs) 3 sets (PS) 8RM, RI 1.5 min and 1 set (PS) 8RM, RI 1.5 min (9 exercises) 120 120
, and
Ratamess et al. [22 ] 8M-T (
yrs) 5 sets (PS) 75% of 1RM (10 rep), RI 0.5 to 5 min and 5 sets (PS) 85% of 1RM (5 rep), RI 0.5 to 5 min (1 exercise) 30 30 52 to 45*
and 56 a 46* Mazzetti et al. [24 ] 9M-T (
yrs) 4 sets (PS) 60% of 1RM, RI 90 s; 4 sets (PS) 60% of 1RM, RI 90 s and 6 sets (PS) 80% of 1RM, RI 90 s (1 exercise) 60 45 49, 58 and 39* Farinatti et al. [16 ] 10F-T (
yrs) 3 sets (PS) 10RM, RI 3 min and 3 sets (PS) 10RM, RI 3 min (3 exercises) 20 20
and
Scott et al. [19 ] 13M-T (
yrs) 1 set 36% of 1RM (37 rep) 1 set 46% of 1RM (26 rep) 1 set 55% of 1RM (20 rep) 1 set 70% of 1RM (12 rep) 1 set 80% of 1RM (8 rep) and 1 set 90% of 1RM (5 rep) (1 exercise) ND ND
Da Silva et al. [17 ] 8F-T (
yrs) 3 sets (C) 50–55% of 1RM and 3 sets (PE) 50–55% of 1RM (7 exercises) 30 30 34.7 and 34.8
Thornton et al. [27 ] 10F-NT (
yrs) 3 sets (PS) 45% of 1RM (15 rep), RI 1 min and 3 sets (PS) 85% of 1RM (8 rep), RI 1 min (9 exercises) 30 5
and
*Kelleher et al. [25 ] 10M-T (
yrs)
4 sets (PS) 10RM, RI 1 min and 4 sets (A/A) 10RM, RI 1 min (6 exercises) 60 ND
and
*