Erschienen in:
01.05.2011 | Letter to the Editor
Does age attenuate aerobic conditioning response in postmenopausal women?
verfasst von:
Roy J. Shephard
Erschienen in:
European Journal of Applied Physiology
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Ausgabe 5/2011
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Excerpt
A recent paper by Earnest et al. (
2010) suggested that in postmenopausal women, the response to moderate aerobic training diminished with age, becoming insignificant in those over the age of 60 years. This is an important issue, and if confirmed, such a finding would have important practical implications for those seeking to improve the health of the elderly (Nelson et al.
2007). However, the recent report is controversial, given that earlier investigators found a substantial aerobic training response in subjects as old as 83 years (Blumenthal et al.
1991; Kohrt et al.
1991; Sidney and Shephard
1978). Perhaps the most conclusive of earlier reports was by Kohrt et al. (
1991). In response to 9–12 months of aerobic training, they observed a 26% gain of maximal oxygen intake in men and a 23% gain in women with an average age of 64 years. Several factors could contribute to these differing conclusions, including issues of subject selection, measurement techniques and intensity of training. …
