Table 2.

Muscle composition outcomes for eccentric and traditional resistance training groups.

	Eccentric group (n = 39)				Traditional group (n = 38)
	Pretraining	Posttraining	Nine-month follow-up	Within-group change	Pretraining	Posttraining	Nine-month follow-up	Within-group change
IMAT (cm2)	29.53 (8.3)	29.56 (7.8)	29.33 (8.8)	P = 0.92	32.11 (11.4)	31.75 (10.2)	32.41 (9.3)	P = 0.64
Lean (cm2)	181.8 (34.2)	183.9 (34.1)	181.6 (31.2)	P = 0.32	193.1 (48.7)	193.9 (48.2)	188.6 (46.8)	P = 0.007

Eccentric group: participants who participated in eccentric resistance training as part of multimodal exercise program; traditional group: participants who participated in traditional resistance training as part of multimodal exercise program; lean: lean tissue cross-sectional area of mid-thigh; IMAT: intermuscular adipose tissue cross-sectional area of mid-thigh.