One-year cessation following resistance training differently affects neuromuscular, body composition, and functional capacity in older adults

Three-Month vs. One-Year Detraining Effects after Multicomponent Exercise Program in Hypertensive Older Women

“…The METP resulted in the improvement of the study of health profiles of older women, similar to a study by Douda et al [ 28 ] that reported increases in muscular strength, cardiorespiratory capacity and flexibility after periods of nine months of METP over five years and in the same direction as Monteagudo et al [ 29 ] and Bezerra et al [ 30 ]. Sobrinho et al [ 20 ] showed only 14 weeks of an METP combined with flexibility training is enough to promote increases in the flexibility of inactive older women and improvements in blood pressure.…”

“…The same occurred in a study by Martinez-Aldao et al [ 15 ] with five months of detraining that reported no changes in the functional capacities of older women, with the exception of muscle strength that could be due to a higher value in strength that could induce a higher decline with detraining. Bezerra et al [ 30 ] reported that after one year of the cessation of exercise, older women maintained their FCs, localized muscular endurance and handgrip strengths, and recommended that low-intensity activities should be performed to reduce the age-related decline in physical capacity. A study by Lee et al [ 36 ] with the same 12-month detraining period reported that was not enough to reverse functional capacities to baseline values with the exception of upper limb flexibility, a result that is partially similar to our results.…”