As people get older, their muscles change in a way that makes certain muscle parts bigger and faster-acting, which is like rewiring how the muscles work.

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Relationships between motor unit size and recruitment threshold in older adults: implications for size principle

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2009 Aug

The study looked at older adults' muscles and found they have bigger motor units than young adults, just like the claim said, showing that aging changes how muscles are wired.

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Relationships between motor unit size and recruitment threshold in older adults: implications for size principle

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DOI: 10.1007/s00221-009-1898-y

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This research suggests that in both younger and older people, the way muscles activate their fibers follows the same basic rule: smaller muscle fibers get called into action before bigger ones. This pattern stays consistent as we age.

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