The relationship between exercise intensity and affective responses demystified: To crack the 40-year-old nut, replace the 40-year-old nutcracker!

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 136-149

  Ekkekakis, Panteleimon ^a   Hall, Eric E ^b   Petruzzello, Steven J ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Activation; Affective valence; Opponent process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; EXERCISE INTENSITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG CAPACITY; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; AROUSAL; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LACTIC ACID; MALE; OXYGEN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 42249097556     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12160-008-9025-z     Document Type: Article

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