Effect of short-term upper-body resistance training on muscular strength, bone metabolic markers, and BMD in premenopausal women.

Unlabelled: To examine the effect of a 10-week upper-body resistance training program on bone turnover markers and site-specific bone mineral density (BMD) in the wrist and distal half of the ulna and radius in untrained and healthy young premenopausal women.

Methods: Twenty-two subjects (aged 22.1 ± 1.