Role of Ratings of Perceived Exertion during Self-Paced Exercise: What are We Actually Measuring?

Sports Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1235-1243

  Abbiss, Chris R ^a   Peiffer, Jeremiah J ^b   Meeusen, Romain ^c,d   Skorski, Sabrina ^e,f  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; HUMAN; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SELF CONTROL;

EXERCISE; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SELF-CONTROL;

EID: 84939268442     PISSN: 01121642     EISSN: 11792035     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40279-015-0344-5     Document Type: Review

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