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Older people and younger people, as well as men and women, have similar muscle strength at the level of individual muscle fibers in a major leg muscle — meaning the muscle fibers themselves are just...

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Discrepancies between Skinned Single Muscle Fibres and Whole Thigh Muscle Function Characteristics in Young and Elderly Human Subjects

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Discrepancies between Skinned Single Muscle Fibres and Whole Thigh Muscle Function Characteristics in Young and Elderly Human Subjects

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DOI: 10.1155/2016/6206959

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Men and women's muscles work differently — especially when it comes to strength and speed — and these differences matter more than getting older. Young men tend to have bigger, faster type I muscle fibers and stronger overall leg muscles than young women.

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