Journal article
Resistance Training During Preadolescence
Abstract
High intensity resistance training appears to be effective in increasing strength in preadolescents. Children make similar relative (percentage improvement), but smaller absolute, strength gains compared with adolescents and young adults in response to similar resistance training programmes. Resistance training appears to have little if any effect on muscle size, and strength gains during training have been associated with increases in levels …
Authors
Blimkie CJR
Journal
Sports Medicine, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 389–407
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
June 1993
DOI
10.2165/00007256-199315060-00004
ISSN
0112-1642