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Effects of a 12-week endurance training program on the physiological response to psychosocial stress in men: a randomized controlled trial

Auteurs: Sandra Klaperski, Bernadette von Dawans, Markus Heinrichs, Reinhard Fuchs

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Uitgave 6/2014

Abstract

The present study experimentally tested the cross-stressor adaptation hypothesis by examining whether endurance exercise training leads to reductions in the physiological stress response to a psychosocial stressor. We randomly assigned 149 healthy men to a 12-week exercise training, relaxation training, or a wait list control group. Before and after intervention we assessed the groups’ physical fitness (lactate testing) and compared their physiological stress responses to the Trier Social Stress Test for Groups in terms of salivary free cortisol, heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV); the final sample consisted of 96 subjects. As hypothesized, the exercise training significantly improved fitness and reduced stress reactivity in all three parameters; however, it only improved stress recovery in terms of HR. The relaxation program reduced only cortisol, but not HR or HRV reactivity; no changes emerged for the control group. The findings suggest that the cross-stressor adaptation hypothesis is valid for cardiovascular as well as endocrine stress reactivity.

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Different committees judged the subjects at T1 and T2 while judging the same number of subjects at T1 and T2.

We preferred the AUC _G to the AUC with respect to increase (AUC _I), as we were interested in the total amount of the response (Federenko et al., 2004). Furthermore, the AUC _I is based on the reference to the first value allowing for negative results in the case of a decrease (Pruessner et al., 2003).

A baseline reduction already implies absolute changes in stress reactivity. If the baseline value is taken into account, relative changes are examined. As regular exercise is not known to generally reduce the cortisol level (Duclos & Tabarin, 2011), there was no need to assess the relative change in stress reactivity for cortisol.

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Titel: Effects of a 12-week endurance training program on the physiological response to psychosocial stress in men: a randomized controlled trial
Auteurs: Sandra Klaperski
Bernadette von Dawans
Markus Heinrichs
Reinhard Fuchs
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2014
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Uitgave 6/2014
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-014-9562-9

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