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The relationship between exercise tolerance and a single rate of perceived exertion as modified by training among older male and female subjects

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posted on 2013-06-11, 10:38 authored by David H.H. Williams
Most testing and training studies make objective measurements of responses to exercise by means of a wide range of physiological parameters of varying degrees of sophistication. However, rarely do such studies take as their central theme how the individual feels in response to a test or to exercise, before and after training. Some studies even conclude that a period of training has had no measurable effects on their subjects because the range of measurements made before and after training was unchanged -yet the subjects report that they felt better and could cope with exercise more effectively. Thus, the aim of this thesis is to describe a series of studies which examined the physiological responses to exercise of middle-aged subjects with the emphasis placed on their subjective reaction to that exercise before and after training. Rather than employ a battery of psychological tests to assess such reactions the simple, but effective, expediency of using a single Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) was adopted [continued]…

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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© D.H.H. Williams

Publication date

1995

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A Doctoral Thesis. Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Doctor of Philosophy of Loughborough University.

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uk.bl.ethos.481229

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  • en

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