Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Clin Nutr. 2002 Sep;76(3):511–517. doi: 10.1093/ajcn/76.3.511

TABLE 4.

Muscle strength before (week 3) and after (week 15) the resistive-training intervention in 10 men consuming a beef-containing (BC) diet and 11 men consuming a lactoovovegetarian (LOV) diet1

Week 3 Week 15
Unilateral seated leg extension (Nm)2
 LOV 121 ± 29 164 ± 28
 BC 111 ± 22 138 ± 28
Unilateral seated leg flexion (Nm)2
 LOV 111 ± 24 140 ± 20
 BC 109 ± 25 139 ± 23
Bilateral leg press (N)2
 LOV 1339 ± 212 1589 ± 161
 BC 1280 ± 358 1544 ± 481
Seated chest press (N)2
 LOV 449 ± 58 511 ± 61
 BC 450 ± 103 554 ± 76
Arm pull (N)2
 LOV 603 ± 21 741 ± 26
 BC 606 ± 39 744 ± 27
1

x̄ ± SD. Nm, Newton meter; N, Newton.

2

Significant main effect of time (P < 0.05), but no significant main effect of group or group-by-time interaction.