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Can Simulated Partners Boost Workout Effort in Long-Term Exercise?
- Source :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. 34:2434-2442
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2020.
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Abstract
- Feltz, DL, Hill, CR, Samendinger, S, Myers, ND, Pivarnik, JM, Winn, B, Ede, A, and Ploutz-Snyder, L. Can simulated partners boost workout effort in long-term exercise? J Strength Cond Res 34(9): 2434-2442, 2020-We tested whether exercising with a stronger simulated (i.e., software-generated) partner leads to greater work effort compared to exercising alone, to help those seeking to maintain or improve fitness levels with long-term high-intensity training, but who find it necessary or practical to exercise in social isolation. Forty-one middle-aged adults, who participated in at least 30 minutes of vigorous exercise 3x·wk, trained on a cycle ergometer 6 days per week for 24 weeks in an alternating regimen of moderate-intensity 30-minute continuous and 3 types of high-intensity interval sessions (8 × 30-second sprints, 6 × 2-minute ladders, and 4 × 4-minute intervals). They were assigned either no partner (control), an always superior partner, or a not always superior partner. Participants varied cycle power output to increase or decrease session intensity during the repeated moderate-intensity sessions (30-minute continuous) and 1 of the 3 high-intensity sessions (4 × 4-minute intervals). Changes in intensity were used as a measure of effort motivation over time. Nested multilevel models of effort trajectory were developed and alpha was set to 0.05. For continuous and interval sessions, effort trajectory was positive and significant for those with an always superior partner, but not significantly different from control. Within interval sessions, those with an always superior partner significantly increased effort in the fourth interval compared to control (p = 0.02). Exercising with an always superior partner leads to greater work efforts during the hardest interval training compared to exercising alone.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
High-Intensity Interval Training
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Session (web analytics)
Interval training
03 medical and health sciences
Oxygen Consumption
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Humans
Cycle ergometer
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Power output
Set (psychology)
Motivation
Virtual Reality
030229 sport sciences
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Bicycling
Term (time)
Regimen
Physical therapy
Female
Psychology
Work effort
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10648011
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....83df3103943725e8afb2e85b850aa904