Journal
MUSCLE & NERVE
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 601-608Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/mus.10480
Keywords
aging; chemically skinned segments of single muscle fibers; resistance training; sarcopenia; specific force
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- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R21AG015797] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NIA NIH HHS [R21-AG15797] Funding Source: Medline
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In order to examine the relative contribution of neural- and muscle-based adaptation to strength training, we studied early (2 weeks) and later (12 weeks) effects of strength training on muscle size and strength and type I single-fiber size and contractility in 14 elderly women (aged 68-79 years) and seven young controls. Older subjects were randomized to training (n = 7) or control (n = 7) groups. Strength did not change, but whole muscle size increased significantly after 2 weeks. After 12 weeks, strength, whole muscle size, and specific force all increased. No changes occurred in the control group. In single fibers, no changes in size and contractility were noted after 2 weeks, but specific force was higher in the training group after 12 weeks. Early adaptations to strength training in elderly women cannot be attributed to changes at the cellular level and therefore occur primarily in the central nervous system. Later, cellular adaptations in specific force track closely whole muscle changes.
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