1. Introduction
muscle mass, connective tissue injuries, injuries, muscle wasting
CONTRACTIONS, MUSCLE WASTING
These authors contributed equally to this work.Background: Post-menopausal women have impaired cardiorespiratory responses to exercise compared to young women. Exercise training may counterbalance impairments, but the time-dependent effects of exercise training remain unclear. The current study aims to investigate the effects of rowing training on maximal aerobic capacity and time-course cardiorespiratory adaptations in older women. Methods: Female participants (Aging leads to a progressive reduction in physical capacity, which is classically represented by the reduction in peak oxygen consumption (VORowing is an Olympic sport modality characterized by high aerobic and resistance components that involve large muscle mass and may produce significant gains in physical capacity [Despite most of the studies that investigated the rowing training effects being conducted with master athletes, it was demonstrated that rowing is a feasible training modality to prevent age-related muscle wasting and weakness [Remarkably, rowing is associated with few injuries compared to other sports because, in part, eccentric muscle contractions, the principal causes of the most common connective tissue injuries, are not frequent during rowing activity [In the older population, traditional aerobic physical training (e.g., jogging and cycling) reduces heart rate and blood pressure responses at rest and during submaximal exercise, even with low volume and intensity of exercise training [The present study was undertaken to test the hypothesis that ten weeks of indoor rowing training increases maximal physical capacity and post-exercise heart rate recovery in post-menopausal women. Moreover, we expected an increased workload during rowing exercises with a lower chronotropic demand during the exercise training session during the protocol period. This study aims to investigate the effects of rowing exercise training on maximal aerobic capacity and time-course cardiorespiratory adaptations in post-menopausal women.