Adults age physiologically at individual rates. Therefore, adults of any specified age will vary widely in their physiologic responses to exercise testing. Special consideration should be given to older adults when giving a fitness test, because
- Age is often accompanied by de conditioning and disease.
- Age predisposes older adults to clinical depression and neurologic diseases.
- Older adults cannot be physically stressed beyond 75% of age-adjusted maximum.
- Older adults are not as motivated to exercise as those who are younger.
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