Date of Award
8-29-2011
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Exercise Science, MS
First Advisor
Brian Church
Committee Members
Jim Stillwell; Marla Graves; Tom Adams
Call Number
LD251 .A566t 2011 S733
Abstract
Resistance training has been recommended into a comprehensive fitness program that includes aerobic and flexibility exercise in order to improve potential benefits on health and performance. It has recently been shown that untrained men and women choose resistance exercise loads less than 60% of 1 RM (Repetition maximum) thus indicating that the untrained individuals may self-select resistance training loads that are insufficient to induce hypertrophy or strength gains. 22 untrained males (mean age 21.5 ± 2.57) and 25 recreationally trained males (mean age 21.04 ±1.66) participated in this study to examine difference in RPE and training load during self-selected and imposed intensity bouts of resistance exercise. The subjects performed three sets (1set=10repitition) of self-selected and imposed intensity resistance exercise protocol comprising of chest press and leg extension on separate days. Set and session RPE, set and session systolic blood pressure measured after each set and session. Descriptive statistics, correlation coefficient, and one-way ANOVAS were calculated to determine significant differences in chest press and leg extension load between the self-selected and imposed intensity exercises and relationship with blood pressure. The results demonstrated that there was no main effect for self-selected (p=0.802) and imposed intensity (p=0.014) but main effect found for time (p<0.01). Interestingly in our study both group showed that the chest press load selection during self-selected and imposed intensity had not much significant difference. But a close significant difference of .073 appeared during chest press load for self-selected compared to imposed intensity in case of untrained population. However the leg extension load selection during self-selected and imposed intensity in untrained male and recreationally trained male yielded a significant difference of .019 and .000 respectively. The correlation coefficient result showed that there was very little relationship between the RPE and systolic blood pressure in both the groups.
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Recommended Citation
Shrestha, Sunita, "Rating Of Perceived Exertion and Blood Pressure Responses in Untrained and Recreationally Trained Males Following Resistance Exercise" (2011). Student Theses and Dissertations. 942.
https://arch.astate.edu/all-etd/942
