Fig 1.
Flow chart displaying the recruitment process of untrained healthy 65- to 75-year-old male participants. Number of participants after advertisement in local newspapers in the Copenhagen area of Denmark (n = 32), after medical examination (n = 28), randomization (n = 27), group allocation to soccer training (SG; n = 9), resistance training (RG; n = 9), or a control group (CG; n = 8).
Fig 2.
Representative immunofluorescent histochemical staining.
Targets shown are; myofibre borders (top left/blue), capillaries (top right/light green) and myofibre type I/IIA (top right/dark green), myofibre type slow/type I (bottom left/red) and a merged over-lay af the above (bottom right). Scale bar = 100 μm.
Table 1.
List of anti-bodies.
Table 2.
Anthropometric characteristics during 52 wks of soccer or resistance training in elderly men.
Table 3.
Muscle variables during 52 wks of soccer or resistance training in elderly men.
Fig 3.
Protein expression in muscle homogenate lysates.
Expression (A.U.: arbitrary units) of (A) superoxide dismutase-2 (SOD-2), (B) glucose transporter-4 (Glut-4), and (C) Akt-2 in elderly subjects after 0 (dark bars), 16 (white bars) or 52 wks (grey bars) of soccer training (SG), resistance training (RG) and continuation of an inactive lifestyle (CG). Geometric means and 95% confidence interval are presented. SNK: * Significantly (p<0.05) different from 0 wks. ** Significantly (p<0.01) different from 0 wks. §§ Significantly (p<0.01) different from 16 wks. Tukey: [Brackets around notation].
Fig 4.
Protein expression in muscle homogenate lysates.
Expression (A.U.: arbitrary units) of (A) mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), (B) myostatin, and (C) in elderly subjects after 0 (dark bars), 16 (white bars) or 52 wks (grey bars) of soccer training (SG), resistance training (RG) and continuation of an inactive lifestyle (CG). Geometric means and 95% confidence interval are presented.
Table 4.
Resting blood variables during 52 wks of soccer or resistance training in elderly men.