抄録
Muscular function in older people has been investigated in various fields, such as kinesiology, physiology, biochemistry, etc. This paper summarizes previous reports, examining the following points of muscular functional characteristics : functional decrease with aging, cause of muscular decrease, trainability of older people, and the importance of resistance training. Both the morphological and functional characteristics of muscular function in older people decrease with aging. However, it has been confirmed that muscular function can be improved by resistance training in older people. Although further research determining more use ful training procedures is necessary, weight training, which can delay functional decrease with aging, is considered to be important.
