Abstract
Over the last five years several hundred older people were studied in our physiology of exercise laboratory with the following threefold purposes:
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To determine the level of trainability in people age 50–90 years of age;
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To learn more about the dose-response characteristics, how much exercise is enough and how much is too much;
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To evaluate the health benefits and the expected improvement in physical vigor in older people participating in supervised exercise.
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de Vries, H.A. (1977). Physiology of Physical Conditioning for the Elderly. In: Harris, R., Frankel, L.J., Harris, S. (eds) Guide to Fitness After Fifty. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4139-0_5
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