The pleasure and displeasure people feel when they exercise at different intensities: Decennial update and progress towards a tripartite rationale for exercise intensity prescription

Sports Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 641-671

  Ekkekakis, Panteleimon ^a   Parfitt, Gaynor ^b   Petruzzello, Steven J ^c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Exercise; Exercise intensity; Exercise prescription; Exercise tolerance; Sports medicine

Indexed keywords

LACTIC ACID;

AFFECT; BLOOD; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PLEASURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW;

AFFECT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LACTIC ACID; MALE; PLEASURE;

EID: 79960705344     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11590680-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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