Changes in antagonist muscles' coactivation in response to strength training in older women

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 62, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1022-1027

  De Boer, Maarten D ^a,b   Morse, Christopher I ^a   Thom, Jeanette M ^a   De Haan, Arnold ^a,b   Narici, Marco V ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT MOBILITY; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TORQUE; TRAINING;

EID: 34948843959     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/62.9.1022     Document Type: Article

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