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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Strength Cond Res. 2009 Oct;23(7):1915–1920. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e3181b94b35

Table 2.

Correlation between age and change from pretraining values (post-training – pretraining) in nondominant (trained) arm after 12 weeks of resistance training.

Muscle cross-sectional area
1 repetition maximum
Maximum voluntary contraction
All Male Female All Male Female All Male Female
r 0.036 −0.008 0.005 −0.217 −0.216 −0.255 0.079 0.079 0.039
p NS NS NS <0.001 <0.001 <0.001 NS NS NS
n 597 249 348 728 302 426 683 285 398