Do older adults fatigue faster than younger adults? Two meta-analyses found less fatigue in isometric tasks, but the advantage was lost or reversed in dynamic work
Oct 27
3 min read
Many lifters past 40 feel they tire faster than they used to. Peak strength does fall with age, but fatigue is a different question: relative to your own maximum, do older muscles give out sooner during a hard effort? The answer turns out to depend heavily on what kind of effort you mean, and two meta-analyses that pooled dozens of young-versus-older comparisons explain why the gym experience and the laboratory headline can disagree.
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