TY - JOUR
T1 - Can self-reported tolerance of exercise intensity play a role in exercise testing?
AU - Ekkekakis, Panteleimon
AU - Lind, Erik
AU - Hall, Eric E.
AU - Petruzzello, Steven J.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between self-reported tolerance of exercise intensity, measured by the Preference for and Tolerance of Exercise Intensity Questionnaire, and the amount of time individuals persevered during incremental treadmill tests to volitional fatigue beyond the point at which they had reached their ventilatory threshold. METHODS: The participants in study 1 were college age and physically active (14 women, 16 men). The participants in study 2 were 24 middle-aged women who were healthy but sedentary. RESULTS: Tolerance was related to the duration after the ventilatory threshold, and this relationship remained after age, body mass index, and self-reported frequency and duration of habitual physical activity (study 1) or after age, body mass index, and maximal aerobic capacity (study 2) had been taken into account. CONCLUSION: Self-reports of exercise intensity tolerance might account for variability in the extent to which individuals persevere during exercise tests. Identifying individuals predisposed to under- or overexertion could be of value in exercise testing and prescription.
AB - INTRODUCTION/PURPOSE: To examine the relationship between self-reported tolerance of exercise intensity, measured by the Preference for and Tolerance of Exercise Intensity Questionnaire, and the amount of time individuals persevered during incremental treadmill tests to volitional fatigue beyond the point at which they had reached their ventilatory threshold. METHODS: The participants in study 1 were college age and physically active (14 women, 16 men). The participants in study 2 were 24 middle-aged women who were healthy but sedentary. RESULTS: Tolerance was related to the duration after the ventilatory threshold, and this relationship remained after age, body mass index, and self-reported frequency and duration of habitual physical activity (study 1) or after age, body mass index, and maximal aerobic capacity (study 2) had been taken into account. CONCLUSION: Self-reports of exercise intensity tolerance might account for variability in the extent to which individuals persevere during exercise tests. Identifying individuals predisposed to under- or overexertion could be of value in exercise testing and prescription.
KW - Personality
KW - Physical activity
KW - Preference
KW - Ventilatory threshold
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U2 - 10.1249/mss.0b013e318058a5ea
DO - 10.1249/mss.0b013e318058a5ea
M3 - Article
C2 - 17596789
AN - SCOPUS:34347341775
SN - 0195-9131
VL - 39
SP - 1193
EP - 1199
JO - Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
JF - Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
IS - 7
ER -