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Affective Responses to Repeated Sessions of High-Intensity Interval Training
List of Authors: Saanijoki T, Nummenmaa L, Eskelinen JJ, Savolainen AM, Vahlberg T, Kalliokoski KK, Hannukainen JC
Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Publication year: 2015
Journal: Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
Journal name in source: MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE
Journal acronym: MED SCI SPORT EXER
Volume number: 47
Issue number: 12
Start page: 2604
End page: 2611
Number of pages: 8
ISSN: 0195-9131
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000000721
Conclusions Short-term HIT and MIT are equally effective in improving aerobic fitness, but HIT increases experience of negative emotions and exertion in sedentary middle-age men. This may limit the adherence to this time-effective training mode, even though displeasure lessens over time and suggests similar mental adaptations to both MIT and HIT.