Choose your own intensity: Advantages for and mechanisms underpinning self-regulated exercise

Introduction: Despite the high saturation of recent public health campaigns to increase exercise and physical activity levels, the number of Australian adults failing to meet the recommendations remains high. Paper one describes the use of a perceptually-regulated exercise test (PRET) to measure car...

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Published in:Journal of science and medicine in sport 2013-12, Vol.16, p.e97-e97
Main Authors: Eston, R, Evans, H, Smith, A, Parfitt, G, Tempest, G
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Exercise intensity
Hypotheses
Older people
Physical fitness
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Sports Medicine
Studies
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Summary:Introduction: Despite the high saturation of recent public health campaigns to increase exercise and physical activity levels, the number of Australian adults failing to meet the recommendations remains high. Paper one describes the use of a perceptually-regulated exercise test (PRET) to measure cardiorespiratory fitness; paper two describes the use of a sub-maximal PRET to predict fitness in older adults; paper three describes the training effect of an 8-week PRET program, clamped at two levels of...
ISSN:1440-2440
1878-1861
DOI:10.1016/j.jsams.2013.10.232