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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"cardiovascular exercise"”.
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Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Cardiovascular Exercise: Role of Visceral Adipose Tissue
… the WAT in the treatment of metabolic diseases. Exercise (EX) has been shown to reduce systemic inflammation, and this effect may be mediated by an EX-associated reduction in WAT inflammation. The overarching hypothesis of this work was that EX lowers inflammation in the visceral WAT as well as …
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Ventilatory threshold and peak VO2 responses in prepubescent children following a high intensity training program
… of a high intensity training program on selected cardiovascular exercise responses in a group of prepubescent males. Thirteen healthy boys with a mean age of 10.0 years were randomly assigned to either control or an exercise group. Children in the exercise group participated in a ten week, three …
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Analysis of Lumbar Spine Kinematics during Trunk Flexion and Extension Motions
The effectiveness of exercise has been increasingly studied as exercise has been popular for the improvement of physical performance and rehabilitation of lumbar spine. A variety of exercises have been used to reduce back pain or spinal degeneration. However, there are no studies to determine …
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Improving exercise adoption: the effects of social support, personalized goal setting and feedback and prompting in a community walking program
… in a walking program designed to meet ACSM's cardiovascular exercise goals. Survival analysis using six months of data points and using the criteria of walking at least 20 minutes a day for a at least three times per week indicated an effect for more frequent versus less frequent prompting …
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The Aging Female Voice: Medical Treatments and Pedagogical Techniques For Combatting the Effects of Aging With Emphasis On Menopause
… practices of proper nutrition, weight control, cardiovascular exercise, as well as vocal exercise, may prolong the quality singing years.</p>
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Selection of exercise intensity using perceptual cues during television distraction
The selection of exercise intensity during television distraction was studied in 20 highly-fit males (VO2peak: 63.2 +/- 10.7 ml·kg -1·min-1) between the ages of 28 and 45 years. It was hypothesized that the perception of exercise intensity during cardiovascular exercise would be influenced by …
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Measuring Self-Reported Exercise, Motivation to Exercise, and Sexism in Women
… study was designed to investigate whether exercise type and motivation to exercise would predict participants’ self-reported benevolent and hostile sexism, particularly in light of gender-related stereotypes about physical activity. A sample of 79 females completed an online survey that …
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Periodic feedback to reduce cholesterol levels
… reported study conducted in a structured cardiovascular exercise program (Burkett, Southard, Herbert, & Walberg, 1990) showed statistical significance over a 16 week trial period using this feedback technique. The results of the present study suggest that the findings of Burkett, et al. …
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Distinct forms of depression and somatization following head injury: A neuropsychological framework and exploratory treatment paradigm for somatic symptoms and executive dysfunction following mild head injury
… manipulated autonomic arousal through brief cardiovascular exercise and evaluated whether this concomitantly improved somatic-based psychiatric complaints and neurocognitive functioning in persons with MHI. Study two replicated the somatic depressive mediation model of study one, and revealed …
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The Effect of a Single Bout of Physical Exertion on Expressive Language and Word Finding in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
… of language tasks after undergoing one bout of cardiovascular exercise (NuStep T5 Recumbent Cross Trainer) and asked to provide a subjective fatigue score. The expressive language tests included confrontation naming, assessment of expressive-language skills, verbal fluency, and assessment of a …
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Determination of Repetitive Jumping Intensity Relative to Measured VO<sub>2max</sub>
<p>To regular exercise and a healthy diet, the American Heart Association (AHA) strongly recommends rope jumping, and according to previous studies, rope jumping is considered a very strenuous exercise. Therefore the purpose of this study was to determine the steady state metabolic cost of …
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Implementing an exercise intervention on young adults at university with type 1 diabetes.
… with insulin regimes, sleeping, dietary and exercise adjustments to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Even though the scientific world has been making tremendous strides in combatting diabetes, the life expectancy of those has been drastically reduced by an average of 11-13 years (Livingstone et …