Selective Maintenance of Motor Performance in Older Adults from Long-Lasting Sport Practice

Autor/inn/en	Dascal, Juliana Bayeux; Teixeira, Luis Augusto
Titel	Selective Maintenance of Motor Performance in Older Adults from Long-Lasting Sport Practice
Quelle	In: Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 87 (2016) 3, S.262-270 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0270-1367
DOI	10.1080/02701367.2016.1188195
Schlagwörter	Psychomotor Skills; Older Adults; Athletics; Quality of Life; Training; Skill Development; Maintenance; Racquet Sports; Exercise; Perceptual Motor Coordination; Aging (Individuals); Physical Fitness; Gerontology; Questionnaires; Statistical Analysis; Comparative Analysis; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychomotorische Aktivität; Älterer Erwachsener; Leichtathletik; Lebensqualität; Ausbildung; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Übung; Körperkoordination; Aging; Altern; Leistungsfähigkeit; Gerontologie; Fragebogen; Statistische Analyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Purpose: Decline of motor performance in older individuals affects their quality of life. Understanding the contribution of sport-related training in advanced ages might help to attenuate motor performance decay as one gets older. The purpose of our study was to evaluate the extent to which long-lasting training in running or sport-specific skills during old age preserves motor performance in different motor tasks. Method: Older runners and tennis players with at least 10 years of training were assessed as were age-matched and young exercisers. Performance was evaluated for 6 motor tasks requiring different functions of sensorimotor control expected to decline with aging. Results: Analysis revealed that runners had increased aerobic fitness in comparison with the other older participants and that they presented similar performance to older exercisers in the motor tasks. Tennis players outperformed the other groups of older participants on coincident timing and simple reaction time and achieved similar performance to the young group on the timing task. Conclusions: These results suggest selective maintenance of task-specific processing through extensive practice of tennis-related motor skills in older adults. (As Provided).
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