The mobility limitation in healthy older people is due to weakness and not slower muscle contractile properties

• Hans Degens ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: h.degens@mmu.ac.uk

  Affiliations Faculty of Science and Engineering, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science & Sports Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom, Institute of Sport Science and Innovations, Lithuanian Sports University, Kaunas, Lithuania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7399-4841

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• Julia Attias,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science & Sports Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Daniel Evans,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science & Sports Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Frederick Wilkins,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science & Sports Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

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• Emma Hodson-Tole

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Science and Engineering, Research Centre for Musculoskeletal Science & Sports Medicine, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1200-1724

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