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Does treadmill running at varying intensities improve frontal EEG asymmetry and self-reported affect in female undergraduate students compared to rest?
Does treadmill running at varying intensities improve frontal EEG asymmetry and self-reported affect in female undergraduate students compared to rest?
Steady-state aerobic exercise at low, moderate, and high intensities induces similar positive affective and psychophysiological responses during recovery.
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May support acute affective benefits of exercise in young women; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
The "feel better" effect of exercise has been well established, but the optimal intensity needed to elicit a positive affective response is controversial. In addition, the mechanisms underlying such a response are unclear To clarify these issues, female undergraduate students were monitored for electroencephalographic (EEG) and self-reported affective responses during the recovery period following rest, low, moderate, and high intensities of treadmill running, each lasting 30 min. Frontal EEG asymmetry and self-reported vigor scores following exercise at all three intensities were significantly elevated compared to those observed following rest. The results suggest that steady-state aerobic exercise bouts executed at varying intensities induce a similar affective response during the recovery period when assessed at both the behavioral and psychophysiological levels.
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