Long-Term Enrollment in a Community Exercise Program Attenuates Age-Related Declines in Fitness in Older Adults
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT Introduction The purpose of this study was to examine changes in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and muscle strength (MS) in participants of a community-based exercise program through a retrospective chart review. Methods In this observational study, participants ( n = 124, 69 females) completed exercise tests before enrollment and after a minimum of 1 yr of participation. One-sample t -tests were used to compare annualized rates of change in CRF and MS compared with published rates of change. Results After a mean follow-up time of 5.2 ± 2.6 yr, absolute and relative rates of decline in peak oxygen uptake (V˙O 2peak ) were less than expected among males, whereas absolute and relative V˙O 2peak improved over time in females compared with established rates of decline. Rates of decline in strength were less than the established rates of decline in both males and females. Conclusion These findings suggest that enrollment in a community-based exercise program was associated with improved aerobic and muscular fitness outcomes in both females and males compared with established rates of change.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".