Resistance Training Interventions for Lower Limb Tendinopathies: A Scoping Review of Resistance Training Reporting Content, Quality, and Scientific Implementation

Table 1

Resistance training principles and training intervention criteria assessed.

Principle	Criteria for this review
Specificity: training and desired adaptations should be specific to the tendinopathy and relevant to desired outcomes	Appropriate population targeted and intervention designed to improve primary outcome
Progression: to allow for continuous adaptations, resistance or load must be increased providing a greater stress to the body	Training intervention was stated to be progressive with gradual increases in frequency, sets, repetitions, resistance, or loading throughout intervention
Overload: for the intervention to improve strength, greater than normal stress and training volume must occur above current training levels	Interventions included baseline strength testing or rationale that intervention was of sufficient intensity and volume relative to baseline capacity
Individualisation: training is tailored to the individual to allow for consideration of individual factors and training response	Training intervention considered methods to individually tailor exercises stimulus based on an individual’s own factors or training response
Component of training	Description
Frequency	How many times per week or day
Intensity	Measurement methods: RM, %RM, RPE, pain level
Time	Duration of session
Sets	How many sets of each exercise
Repetitions	How many repetitions of each exercise or target number of repetitions
Exercise selection	Outline and description of specific exercises used in intervention
Adherence	Was adherence to the training intervention monitored and reported?