Using the Talk Test to Prescribe and Guide Exercise Intensity: Speaking Your Way to Improved Fitness
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Abstract
Introduction: The Talk Test (TT) is a non-invasive, subjective method of prescribing exercise intensity. The TT involves three stages. When exercisers can speak comfortably, can speak but not comfortably, or cannot speak comfortably, they are in the positive (POS), equivocal (EQ), and negative (NEG) TT stages, respectively. The NEG stage correlates with important physiological markers such as ventilatory threshold and lactate threshold. Given the evidence demonstrating large increases peak oxygen consumption (VO2peak) when training at intensities above these markers, the purpose of the study was to test the hypothesis that the TT is efficacious for improving VO2peak at both the group and individual level in young, healthy males. Methods: 11 healthy males completed a maximal fitness test before and after 4 weeks of training 4 times per week for 30 minutes in the NEG stage. The TT was performed every 2.5 to 5 minutes to ensure that the resistance would be enough to elicit a NEG response. Changes in VO2peak below 2 times a previously established typical error were classified as non-response. Results: Four weeks of training at NEG induced a significant increase (11.5%) in VO2peak (PRE: 45.80 mL/Kg/min ± 4.92; POST 51.07 mL/Kg/min ± 5.45, p < 0.001). Furthermore, only one participant (9.09%) was classified as a non-responder in VO2peak following training. Conclusion: These results suggest that the TT can efficaciously prescribe and guide exercise intensity in young, healthy males, and that training at an intensity that prevents comfortable speech leads to a small incidence of non-response
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 0.004 |
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