Evidence-Based Practice in Personal Training – Understanding the Meaningfulness of Research Findings
by Grayson Elmore, CSCS
Personal Training Quarterly
December 2021
Vol 8, Issue 3
The purpose of this article is to provide personal trainers reading the strength and conditioning research the knowledge necessary to better understand the statistical data commonly reported in research manuscripts.
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