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Exercise Dosing to Retain Resistance Training Adaptations in Young and Older Adults

C. Scott Bickel, James M. Cross, Marcas M. Bamman

Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 2010 · 190 citations · 38 references

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Abstract

We conclude that older adults require a higher dose of weekly loading than the young to maintain myofiber hypertrophy attained during a progressive RT program, yet gains in specific strength among older adults were well preserved and remained at or above levels of the untrained young.

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