the aim of this study was to examine the effect of overt and covert motivationalself-talk on perceived exertion and performance in a progressive exercise untilexhaustion in wrestlers. the population consisted of wrestlers in urmia and 15volunteer subjects were selected. this study was performed in three sessions with aone-week interval. the first session was held without self–talk while the sec...

the aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the effects of twokinds of motivational and instructional self–talk on the performance of static anddynamic balance tasks in the elderly. for this purpose, 45 old subjects agedbetween 60 and 70 from qom province participated in this study. static balancetask (stand on one leg) and dynamic balance task (sebt test) were instructed withno...

INTRODUCTION: Self-talk is one of the most commonly used strategies to influence the intensity and duration of physical performance (Hamilton et al., 2007; Diaz-Ocejo et al., 2013). However, it has received little attention as a coping method in the study of perceived effort, particularly in National Collegiate Athletes Association (NCAA) Division III athletes. Previous research examining the u...

PURPOSE This is a pilot study to determine if endurance exercises for dorsiflexors will improve walking for people with foot drop secondary to MS, and if improvement in muscle endurance for persons with MS can be predicted based on the amount of central fatigue (CF) in the muscle. SUBJECTS Five individuals with foot drop secondary to MS and five age-matched controls. METHODS The interventio...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neck flexor muscle endurance has been negatively correlated with cervical pain and dysfunction. The purposes of this study were to determine rater reliability in subjects both with and without neck pain and to determine whether there was a difference in neck flexor muscle endurance between the 2 groups. SUBJECTS Forty-one subjects with and without neck pain were enrolle...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Electrical stimulation has been used to assess skeletal muscle resistance to fatigue. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that 12 weeks of intense endurance exercise training on a bicycle ergometer would reduce the percentage of decline in quadriceps femoris muscle torque during an electrically elicited fatigue test. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eleven nondisab...

The purpose of the study is to analyze the effect of isolated and combined strength and endurance training on cardio respiratory endurance of kho kho players. To achieve the purpose of this study, sixty men kho kho players studying in various colleges affiliated to Acharya Nagarjuna University, Nagarjuna Nagar, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India during the academic year 2014-2015 was selected as sub...

Forty-five men (18-35 years) trained three times a week for eight weeks to determine the effects of four constant-resistant weight training programmes on muscular strength, endurance, body composition and cardiovascular functioning. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of four programmes: Endurance (2 sets of 15 repetition maximum [RM]); Explosive (1 set of 15 RM); Strength 1 (3 sets of 6 RM)...