ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2023
Power Training Prescription in Older Individuals: Is It Safe and Effective to Promote Neuromuscular Functional Improvements?
Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Minimalist Training: Is Lower Dosage or Intensity Resistance Training Effective to Improve Physical Fitness? A Narrative Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Pooled it
- Chronic Effects of Different Intensities of Power Training on Neuromuscular Parameters in Older People: A Systematic Review with Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2023Pooled it
- Dynamic power training with elastic bands improves arterial stiffness and hemodynamic parameters in older adults? A pilot study.Journal of human hypertension · 2026Trial
- Effects of short-term multicomponent exercise intervention on muscle power in hospitalized older patients: A secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2023Trial
- Effects of combined muscle power and endurance training with different volumes on functional and hemodynamic parameters in previously trained older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2023Trial
- Impact of mixed power training on fall predictors and gait parameters in community-dwelling older men.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Superior effects of high-intensity interval eccentric cycling training on neuromuscular adaptations with similar aerobic adaptations to concentric cycling.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Lifetime Endurance Physical Activity Is Related to Better Cardiometabolic Profile but May Be Insufficient to Preserve Muscle Strength and Power in Middle Aged and Older Men.Clinical interventions in aging · 2026Article
- High-Velocity, Accentuated Eccentric, or Maximal Elastic Band Resistance Training? Effects of Resistance Training Modalities on Bone Health, Isokinetic Strength, and Systemic Biomarkers in Sedentary Older Adults: A Comparative Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Role for neurological and immunological resilience in the pathway of the aging muscle powerpenia: InCHIANTI study longitudinal results.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Prevention of Sarcopenia.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- Agreement and Associations between Countermovement Jump, 5-Time Sit-To-Stand, Lower-Limb Muscle Power Equations, and Physical Performance Tests in Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Powerpenia Should be Considered a Biomarker of Healthy Aging.Sports medicine - open · 2024Article
- Response to Comment on: "Power Training Prescription in Older Individuals: Is It Safe and Effective to Promote Neuromuscular Functional Improvements?"Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Comment on: "Power Training Prescription in Older Individuals: Is it Safe and Effective to Promote Neuromuscular Functional Improvements?"Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Article
- Unraveling age-related impairment of the neuromuscular system: exploring biomechanical and neurophysiological perspectives.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Review
- Characteristics of resistance training-based protocols in older adults with sarcopenic obesity: a scoping review of training procedure recommendations.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
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Abstract
Muscle power has been reported to be critical in counteracting age-related declines in functional performance. Muscle power output in functional performance exercises can be greatly improved in a short period of time (i.e., ≤ 12 weeks) using specific exercise interventions such as power training (i.e., exercises attempting to move loads ranging from 20 to 70% of 1-repetition maximum as fast as possible during the concentric muscle action, followed by a controlled, slower eccentric muscle action). Despite the widespread evidence on the effectiveness of power training in older adults (~ 300 scientific articles published on this topic in the past 10 years), some scientists do not recommend the use of explosive-type muscular contractions during resistance training (i.e., power training) for the older population; indeed, some international guidelines do not mention this type of exercise for older people. The reasons underlying this absence of mention and recommendation for the use of power training as a fundamental exercise strategy for older people are still not well known. Therefore, we attempted to point out the main issues about safety, feasibility, and effectiveness of muscle power training to promote neuromuscular functional improvements in older people.
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