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We thank Neil-Sztramko et al 1 for their interest in our paper2 where they outline concerns they suggest may confound what can be concluded from the findings. We address each of their concerns below. A more detailed response to the authors can be found in the online supplementary file.

Neil-Sztramko et al raise an excellent point regarding the relevance of evaluating if inclusion of multiple papers from larger trials may have meaningfully influenced the percentage of studies we categorised as implementing the resistance training (RT) principles of interest. Accordingly, we recalculated the results after removing papers that represented secondary analyses of larger trials and added the studies they suggested be included. The revised recalculation, involved 29 studies and yielded implementation rates of 72% for …