Protein and Improved Chest Press Strength

• Does Protein Ingestion Timing Affect Exercise-Induced Adaptations? A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.

  • 2025-06-21
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Nutrients 17(13)
  • • Rafael A Casuso
    • Lennert Goossens

  • PubMed: 40647175
  • DOI: 10.3390/nu17132070

  3 Insights on

  • Improved Chest Press Strength

  • High evidence
  • Rigorous Journal

  For the chest press exercise, there was no effect of protein timing on repeated maximum (RM) (SMD: 0.07; 95% CI: -0.248 to 0.395; I² = 0%, p = 0.653).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  Not specified in abstract