.... Dynapenia Training Contractile performance Weight management Sarcopenia An age-related reduction in mobility and quality of life is associated with a decrease in the contractile performance of skeletal muscle ( Williams et al., 2002 ; Landi et al., 2012 ; Woo et al., 2016 ). As such, older...

..., and in ageing, have been obtained by the use of ultrasonography; these have led to the identification of clinical biomarkers of disuse atrophy and sarcopenia. Recent evidence also shows that the pattern of muscle hypertrophy in response to chronic loading is contraction-mode dependent (eccentric versus...