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As people get older, their muscles get worse at staying strong when moving quickly — and this gets worse by about 0.1% each year after middle age.

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Ten‐year longitudinal changes in muscle power, force, and velocity in young, middle‐aged, and older adults

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2023 Apr

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Ten‐year longitudinal changes in muscle power, force, and velocity in young, middle‐aged, and older adults

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DOI: 10.1002/jcsm.13184

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As people get older, their muscles lose power — but how that happens changes over time. Younger adults mostly lose strength, while older adults lose both strength and speed, meaning different things go wrong in the body as we age.

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