Reversing sarcopenia: How weight training can build strength and vitality

Geriatrics

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 46-53

  Evans, William J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; WEIGHT LIFTING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGING; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; WEIGHT LIFTING; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 0030139733     PISSN: 0016867X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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