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- Title
The Effect of Exercise Frequency on Lower Limb Strength and Self-assessed Exercise Ability of the Elderly.
- Authors
YUTA NAKAYA; KUNIHIRO KATAYAMA; KOJI SHIGESHIMA; HIROSHI YAMASAKI; MASAHIRO KUMAGAI
- Abstract
[Purpose] We investigated whether or not exercise frequency has a beneficial effect on the lower limb strength of the elderly, and whether or not it was related to self-assessed exercise ability. [Subjects] The subjects were 71 elderly persons over the age of 65. [Methods] The subjects were grouped according to exercise frequency (0, 1~2, 3~5, and 6 or more days a week), and age, isometric knee extension strength, and subjective non-stop walking distance were compared among the groups. [Results] No significant differences in age, isometric knee extension strength or age were found among the groups. The subjective non-stop walking distance of the high frequency exercise groups was significantly longer. [Conclusion] Despite frequency of exercise (mostly walking) having no effect on lower limb strength, it lengthened subjective non-stop walking distance. Thus, physical function assessments of the elderly need to be made objectively with instrumentation, not through exercise frequency and subjective methods.
- Subjects
EXERCISE; EXERCISE physiology; LEG; KNEE surgery; WALKING -- Social aspects; HEALTH of older people
- Publication
Rigakuryoho Kagaku, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
1341-1667
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1589/rika.29.193