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Age and Ageing 2006 35(3):291-297; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj082
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Geriatrics Society. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Cardiopulmonary responses to eccentric and concentric resistance exercise in older adults

Alberto F. Vallejo, Edward T. Schroeder, Ling Zheng, Nicole E. Jensky and Fred R. Sattler

University of Southern California, Biokinesiolgy, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Address correspondence to: A. F. Vallejo. Email: avallejo{at}usc.edu

Background: in older ambulatory persons, exercise strategies that are expected to generate beneficial muscle adaptations with low cardiopulmonary demands are needed.

Objective: we hypothesised that eccentric resistance exercise would be less demanding on the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems than bouts of concentric resistance exercise.

Design: the effects of eccentric and concentric resistance exercise were compared during leg squats at a submaximal intensity known to increase muscle mass.

Subjects: 19 older persons (15 women/four men, age 65±4 years) and 19 young reference controls (10 women/nine men; age 25±2 years) were enrolled.

Methods: participants completed eccentric-only and concentric-only exercise bouts 5–7 days apart.

Results: cardiovascular and pulmonary measures were collected from subjects during bouts consisting of three sequential sets of 10 repetitions at 65% of their voluntary concentric 1-repetition maximum force (68±16 kg for older participants and 94±36 kg for young participants). Peak heart rate (119±10 versus 155±16 b.p.m.), systolic blood pressure (129±18 versus 167±14 mmHg), cardiac index (7.8±2.0 versus 9.2±1.5 l/min/m2) and expired ventilation (20.5±5.7 versus 29.8±9.1 l/min) were significantly lower during eccentric than during concentric bouts in the older subjects, respectively (P<0.001 for all comparisons). Similarly, peak heart rate, systolic blood pressure, cardiac index and expired ventilation were significantly lower during eccentric bouts in the young control subjects.

Conclusions: eccentric resistance exercise produced less cardiopulmonary demands and may be better suited for older persons with low exercise tolerance and at risk of adverse cardiopulmonary events.

Keywords: resistance exercise, cardiopulmonary demands, leg squats, elderly

Received November 11, 2005; accepted in revised form February 13, 2006.


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