Mauri Kallinen

TL;DR: Great training-induced gains in maximal and explosive strength in both middle-aged and elderly subjects were accompanied by large increases in the voluntary activation of the agonists, with significant reductions in the antagonist coactivation in the elderly subjects.

TL;DR: Effects of a 24-week strength training performed twice weekly (24 ST) (combined with explosive exercises) followed by either a 3-week detraining and a 21-week re-strength-training (21 RST) or by a 24 week detraining (24 DT) on neural activation of the agonist and antagonist leg extensors, muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) of the quadriceps femoris, maximal isometric and one repetition maximum (1-RM

TL;DR: In elderly women the effects of physical training on muscle strength and walking speed occur after endurance as well as strength training, and the considerable interindividual variation in change of muscle performance is also worth noticing.

TL;DR: The present findings suggest that progressive heavy resistance strength training leads to great increases in maximal dynamic strength of the trained subjects accompanied by both considerable neural adaptations and muscular hypertrophy not only in middle-aged but also in elderly men and women.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the decline in maximal strength with increasing age could be related to the fall in the CSA of the muscle, but in older people, especially women, strength decreases seemed to be multifactorial, including possibly a decrease in voluntary neural drive or changes in "qualitative" characteristics of the Muscle tissue.