1. Age and gender responses to strength training and detraining
- Author
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Lemmer, Jeff T., Hurlburt, Diane E., Martel, Greg F., Tracy, Brian L., Ivey, Fred M., Metter, E. Jeffrey, Fozard, James L., Fleg, Jerome L., and Hurley, Ben F.
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Exercise -- Demographic aspects ,Isometric exercise -- Demographic aspects ,Physical education and training -- Physiological aspects ,Aging -- Physiological aspects ,Aged women -- Physiological aspects ,Aged men -- Physiological aspects ,Young adults -- Physiological aspects ,Health ,Sports and fitness - Abstract
Gender and age responses to strength training and detraining have been studied with the finding that changes in one-repetition maximum (1RM) strength in response to strength training (ST) and detraining are affected by age. ST-induced increases in muscular strength, however, seem to be maintained equally well in young and older males and females in 12 weeks of detraining. They are maintained above baseline levels even after 31 weeks of detraining in young men, young women and older men. One-repetition maximum and isokinetic strength was measured in 18 young and 23 older people before and after unilateral knee extension ST and after detraining periods.
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- 2000