How does muscle power change over ten years? In 489 adults it fell 0.6% a year in young men, 1.1–1.4% in the middle-aged and 2.2–2.4% in older adults
Oct 27
4 min read
Most talk about ageing muscle is about mass. Yet what lets you climb stairs two at a time, catch yourself when you trip or drive a bar off your chest is power: force produced quickly. Strength has been reported to fall faster than muscle size, but comparisons of young and old people at a single point in time compare different people. The better question is what happens when the same people are measured twice, ten years apart, and whether the decline is already under way long before old age.
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