Psychologic Effects of Cardiovascular Conditioning: A Controlled Experiment

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Abstract
College students were randomly assigned to a cardiovascular conditioning program or to a control program desinged to give the appearance of physical training while minimizing cardiovascular benefits. Both groups were tested for cardiovascular fitness as well as on a number of self-rating scales before and after the 6-wk program. The cardiovascular group demonstrated a significantly greater improvement in cardiovascular fitness than the control group and tended to show a greater reduction in anxiety and greater increase in measures of general psychologic well-being.