Research – Strength Training Older People – Skelton – JAGS 1995
Dawn Skelton, in 1995, published (in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society) the results of a 12 week randomised controlled trial of seated strength training in women aged 75 and over. The effect was a rejuventation of some 20 years of lost strength just by taking part in strengthening exercises with therabands three times a…