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September 2, 2002

Subject: Study showing improved cardiorespiratory endurance with resistive exercise.

My good friend Dr. Joyce Chen, M.D. dropped off a copy of a study she found in the Archives of Internal Medicine the other day. The study concluded that "Significant improvements in aerobic capacity and treadmill time to exhaustion can be obtained in older adults as a consequence of either high-or low intensity resistance exercise."

The object of this study, carried out at the University of Florida, was to examine the effect of 6 months of high or low-intensity exercise on aerobic capacity and treadmill time to exhaustion in adults aged 60 to 83 years of age.

As I recall, Ken Hutchins, founder of Superslow® has been saying this all along.

The conclusion of this study suggests that increased strength as a consequence of resistive exercise training may allow older adults to reach and/or improve their aerobic capacity.

Reprints: Kevin R. Vincent,PhD, College of Medicine, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 101012, Gainesville,Fl. 32610 (e-mail: kvincent@ufl.edu)