High-Intensity Exercise in Older Adults

Exclusion Criteria

• •Inability to complete physical function assessment or inability to do a chair stand without using hands
• •Use of antidiabetic medications
• •Use of testosterone supplement or replacement
• •Clinical disorder precluding/interfering with participation or assessments (identified by Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire (PAR-Q+)), including: unstable angina, arrhythmia, uncontrolled hypertension, end stage renal disease on hemodialysis, lower extremity amputation or paralysis, neurological conditions causing functional or pronounced cognitive impairments, active malignancy except for non-melanomatous skin cancers
• •Previous neurological history such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, multiple sclerosis, long-term pre-stroke seizures, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, etc.
• •Unable to provide consent