Resistance Exercise for the Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Dynapenia

Temporal trends of youth muscular fitness (i.e., muscular strength, muscular power and local muscular endurance) indicate that contemporary children and adolescents are weaker and slower than previous generations. Consequently, this generation of millennials appear to be just as vulnerable as older adults to the inevitable consequences of muscle disuse and neuromuscular dysfunction. The modern-day construct of pediatric dynapenia describes an...