Agility Training for Older Adults to Improve Fall Risk Factors

In this randomized controlled trial the effect of 4 months of multi-component (strength, balance, cognition, endurance) exercise training intervention on measures of neuromuscular performance, cognition, and endurance as well as neural adaptations on a central and peripheral level is investigated. 40 subjects are recruited that are generally health and between 60 and 80 years of age. The interventions is based around exercises, where different tasks have to be solved simultaneously rather than serially, as has previously been done.

Inclusion Criteria:willing to be randomized to either armability to travel to the sports facility twice a weekunderstanding the german languageExclusion Criteria:smoking, obesityhistory of cardiovascular, pulmonary or chronic inflammatory diseasevision impairmentsorthopaedic problems preventing them from participating in an exercise programhistory of osteoporosis or recent low trauma fractureless than two weeks during the intervention periodnot have taken part in a structured exercise program more than once a week in the past three months