Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Strength Performance in Trained Men and Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Vargas Molina, Salvador Murri, Mora Gonzalez Jimenez, Andrés Gómez Urquiza, Jose Luis Benítez Porres, Javier Carbohydrate restriction Ketosis Performance Ketogenic diets (KDs) are an alternative to improve strength performance and body composition in resistance training participants. The objective of this review and meta-analysis is to verify whether a ketogenic diet produces an increase in the strength of resistance-trained participants. We have evaluated the effect of the ketogenic diet in conjunction with resistance training on the strength levels in trained participants. Boolean algorithms from various databases (PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) were used. Meta-analyses were carried out, one on the 1-RM squat (SQ), with 106 trained participants or athletes, and another on the 1-RM on the bench press (BP), evaluating 119 participants. We did not find significant differences between the groups in the variables of SQ or BP, although the size of the effect was slightly higher in the ketogenic group. Conclusions: KDs do not appear to impair 1-RM performance; however, this test does not appear to be the most optimal tool for assessing hypertrophy-based strength session performance in resistance-trained participants. 2024-09-03T08:54:15Z 2024-09-03T08:54:15Z 2024-07-10 journal article Vargas-Molina, S.; Murri, M.; Gonzalez-Jimenez, A.; Gómez-Urquiza, J.L.; Benítez-Porres, J. Effects of the Ketogenic Diet on Strength Performance in Trained Men andWomen: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients 2024, 16, 2200. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu16142200 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/93823 10.3390/nu16142200 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ open access Atribución 4.0 Internacional MDPI