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- Title
Results of a community-based weight-bearing resistance training programme for healthy Chilean elderly subjects.
- Authors
Bunout, Daniel; Barrera, Gladys; Avendano, Marcelo; De La Maza, Pia; Gattas, Vivien; Leiva, Laura; Hirsch, Sandra
- Abstract
Focuses on a study which assessed the compliance and effectiveness of a community-based, moderate-intensity resistance exercise training programme for Chilean elderly subjects. Effect of long-term resistance training on muscle strength; Association of training with a preservation of appendicular fat-free mass in women; Observations on the lack of effect of exercise on falls.
- Subjects
PHYSICAL fitness; MUSCLE strength; EXERCISE; HEALTH of older people; ACCIDENTAL falls in old age
- Publication
Age & Ageing, 2005, Vol 34, Issue 1, p80
- ISSN
0002-0729
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ageing/afi005