The effect of a standardized verbal encouragement protocol on peak oxygen uptake during incremental treadmill testing in healthy individuals: A randomized cross-over trial.

Although we found a small trend supporting the hypothesis that individuals with higher overall motivation exhibit a smaller change in V̇O 2peak with encouragement, the association was rather weak and nonsignificant (Figure 2 ).

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Similarly, we found a significant increase in RER peak , but not in HR peak or TTE, although the latter two outcomes also showed a trend toward a higher HR peak and longer TTE with verbal encouragement.

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