Two Weeks of Reduced Activity and Skeletal Muscle Health in Older Men

Participants will reduce the number of steps they take each day to less than 1, 500 for two weeks, using a pedometer to monitor their daily step count.

Participants will attend 10 strength training exercise sessions over a four week period prior to the step-reduction intervention. These exercise sessions will be focused on lower limb strength, fully supervised and will be progressive.

Participants will perform three bouts of five minutes of exercise each day during the two week step-reduction intervention. These will consist of five discrete exercises, each performed continuously for one minute, with one minute of rest between each exercise. These exercises will be non-supervised, and require no specialist equipment.