Functional fitness gain varies in older adults depending on exercise mode

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 2036-2043

  Takeshima, Nobuo ^a   Rogers, Nicole L ^b   Rogers, Michael E ^b   Islam, Mohammod M ^a   Koizumi, Daisuke ^a   Lee, Sungchul ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional fitness; Japanese; Specificity of training; Well rounded exercises

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RESISTANCE BLOOD VESSEL; SENESCENCE; TAI CHI; TRAINING; WALKING;

AGED; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; TAI JI; WALKING; WEIGHT LIFTING;

EID: 35948935626     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/mss.0b013e31814844b7     Document Type: Article

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