Weight Training to Activities of Daily Living: Helping Older Adults Make a Connection

PURPOSE: To compare a weight training alone treatment (WT) to an innovative WT plus education treatment (WT + ED) about the use of strength-training gains when performing activities of daily living (ADL) with respect to their effects on ADL self-efficacy and performance. METHODS: Twenty-three men and 41 women (mean age = 74.4 +/- 3.7 yr) were randomly assigned to WT or WT + ED. Both groups performed 12 wk (two sessions per week) of WT targeting …