Effect of very low-intensity resistance training with slow movement on muscle size and strength in healthy older adults

Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 463-470

  Watanabe, Yuya ^a   Madarame, Haruhiko ^a   Ogasawara, Riki ^a   Nakazato, Koichi ^b   Ishii, Naokata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIPPON SPORT SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ageing; Elderly; Muscle hypertrophy; Sarcopenia; Strength training

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECCENTRIC MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ELDERLY CARE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; MUSCLE SIZE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; REST; SLOW MOVEMENT RESISTANCE TRAINING; THIGH MUSCLE; ACTION POTENTIAL; AGE; AGING; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HYPERTROPHY; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; ORGAN SIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; LACTIC ACID;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY; JAPAN; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RESISTANCE TRAINING; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84907960891     PISSN: 14750961     EISSN: 1475097X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cpf.12117     Document Type: Article

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