Effect of a sustained program of resistance training on the acute growth hormone response to resistance exercise in older adults.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over).

Subjects were randomly assigned to either an exercise program, consisting of 12 weight-lifting exercises (3 sets of 8 repetitions, 3 times each week) or to a control group.

After testing maximum baseline strength by the 1 RM method, subjects returned to the laboratory for assessment of basal GH and IGF-I levels and the GH response to exercise.

Who Took Part

The abstract describes 5 men taking part.

PubMed indexes the participants as middle-aged adults and older adults, both men and women.

How the Study Was Run

In design terms this was a randomized study.

The men were allocated by chance, so the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) group and the comparison group should start out alike.

What Was Measured

After testing maximum baseline strength by the 1 RM method, subjects returned to the laboratory for assessment of basal GH and IGF-I levels and the GH response to exercise.

The subject headings attached to it are Exercise, Growth Hormone, Insulin-Like Growth Factor I, Muscles, Physical Fitness and Weight Lifting.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) in 5 men.

With fewer than 40 people, it is a small study, so it is better read as an early signal for further research than as a settled answer.

The publication is from 1994 (Hormone and metabolic research = Hormon- und Stoffwechselforschung = Hormones et metabolisme), a journal based in Germany.

More context: the Exogenous HGH, sermorelin & older GHRPs (why they're passed over) compound page, all human trials.