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The Curse of Inactivity

Failure of Acute Exercise to Enhance Feeling States in a Community Sample of Sedentary Adults

Lise Gauvin

Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

W. Jack Rejeski

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

James L. Norris

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

Lesley Lutes

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA

This laboratory experiment used random digit dialing procedures to recruit a community sample of physically inactive participants into a study that was designed to examine the impact of different intensities of acute aerobic exercise on feeling states. Sedentary men (n 5 36) and women (n 5 36) were randomly assigned to experience a single bout of aerobic exercise at one of three intensities (30%, 50%, 70% of HRR). Each participant attended two counterbalanced laboratory sessions, one involving an attention-control manipulation and the other involving aerobic exercise. Before and after each session, they completed a feeling state questionnaire. Data suggested that there were neither widespread mood-enhancing effects of acute exercise nor evidence for a strong dose-response relationship.

Key Words: affect • dose-response • exercise • feeling states • subjective perceptions

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 4, 509-523 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/135910539700200408
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