Integrated Care Analysis Response to Exercise in Community-dwelling Elders

The intervention conducted was a progressive multicomponent training protocol. The training consisted on 2 collective sessions of 1h per week, during 10 weeks. Sessions involved functional exercises, muscular reinforcement performed at body-weight or with small materials (elastic bands or dumbbells), balance, and adapted sport and physical activities. Progression was based on an increase in workload (or in muscle strains). The workload was considered as the interaction of intensity and volume of exercise (set x repetitions). Intensity was based on effort tolerance, modulate by contraction regimen, velocity and load (elastic bands stiffness). Participants were encouraged to reproduce exercises at home when they were performed easily in supervised collective sessions.