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Maximum Strength and Strength Training—A Relationship to Endurance?
Strength and Conditioning Journal, 2006Endurance can be defined as the ability to maintain or to repeat a given force or power output. The sport performance-endurance relationship is a multi-factorial concept. However, evidence indicates that maximum strength is a major component. Conceptually, endurance is a continuum.
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Clinics in Sports Medicine, 1991
Strength training has become quite popular and is now recommended as part of a well-balanced fitness program in healthy individuals. It is also useful in a wide variety of other clinical circumstances. An understanding of the pertinent basic science and research endeavors will help in the design and prescription of safe, effective programs.
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Strength training has become quite popular and is now recommended as part of a well-balanced fitness program in healthy individuals. It is also useful in a wide variety of other clinical circumstances. An understanding of the pertinent basic science and research endeavors will help in the design and prescription of safe, effective programs.
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2022
Physical exercise plays a key role in human health and fitness. An essential part of physical exercise is resistance training, which improves overall health, muscle strength, body metabolism, as well as the cardiovascular system. Scientific methods towards designing resistance training programs have evolved rapidly in the last years.
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Physical exercise plays a key role in human health and fitness. An essential part of physical exercise is resistance training, which improves overall health, muscle strength, body metabolism, as well as the cardiovascular system. Scientific methods towards designing resistance training programs have evolved rapidly in the last years.
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The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1993
Recent research shows that increased strength leads to improved balance and functional mobility among older people.
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Recent research shows that increased strength leads to improved balance and functional mobility among older people.
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Strength Training for the Young Athlete
Pediatric Annals, 2010CME EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES1.Identify the concept of strength training in young athletes and provide a historical background on changing attitudes toward this practice over the past several decades.2.Discuss the proven benefits of strength training in young children and adolescents.3.List guidelines for safe and effective strength training in children ...
Warren K, Young, Jordan D, Metzl
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Strength Training for Children and Adolescents
Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2001Strength, or resistance, training for young athletes has become one of the most popular and rapidly evolving modes of enhancing athletic performance. Early studies questioned both the safety and the effectiveness of strength training for young athletes, but current evidence indicates that both children and adolescents can increase muscular strength as ...
J A, Guy, L J, Micheli
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Weight Training: Strength for Everyone
The Physician and Sportsmedicine, 1998In prehistoric times, competitive swimmers never lifted weights. The conventional wisdom was that weight training would make their muscles too bulky and would slow them down. This turned out to be untrue. Weight training made swimmers stronger and they moved through the water like trout.
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The Effects of Strength Training on Sarcopenia
Canadian Journal of Applied Physiology, 2001In the past decade strength training has been investigated extensively as a means of reversing the muscle mass loss that occurs with aging (sarcopenia). High intensity resistance training (HIRT) has led to increased protein synthesis, along with muscle hypertrophy measured at the whole body, whole muscle, and muscle fibre levels, in older adults ...
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Strength Training in Children and Adolescents
Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1990Strength is the ability to exert muscular force against resistance. It is a fundamental requirement of most daily physical activities of children and of adults. Strength training is the use of progressive resistance exercise methods specifically to increase strength. Strength training for children and adolescents is not without risk.
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