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Resistance Training Reduces Susceptibility to Eccentric Exercise-Induced Muscle Dysfunction in Older Women

^a Department of Exercise Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
^b Department of Radiology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse

L.L. Ploutz-Snyder, Room 201, Womens Building, 820 Comstock Avenue, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 E-mail: LLPLOUTZ{at}syr.edu.

Decision Editor: John Faulkner, PhD

This study evaluated the effect of age on susceptibility to muscular weakness and damage caused by eccentric (ECC) exercise and determined whether this susceptibility was altered by resistance training. Young and older women performed concentric (CON) and ECC one repetition maximum (1 RM) strength tests of the quadriceps femoris. Older women also performed knee extension training for 12 weeks. An unaccustomed bout of ECC knee extension exercise was performed before and after training, and CON and ECC 1 RM were reassessed for 11 days after the ECC bout. Magnetic resonance imaging was used to evaluate changes in muscle water content associated with muscle damage. Before training, older subjects showed a larger decline in CON (p = .008) and ECC (p = .03) strength induced by the unaccustomed ECC bout, compared with the young subjects. One day following the ECC bout, the older women showed a 24% reduction in CON and a 27% reduction in ECC 1 RM, compared with only 6% (CON) and 10% (ECC) in the younger women. A magnetic resonance imaging evaluation indicated that edema or damage was significantly greater in the older untrained women than it was in young women (p < .05), but the resistance-trained older women showed no greater muscle injury than the young women (p > .05). Resistance-trained older women showed no greater decline than sedentary young women in either CON (p > .05) or ECC (p > .05) strength. In conclusion, sedentary older women are more susceptible to ECC-induced muscle dysfunction, but resistance training reduces this susceptibility.

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