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Enhancing
Athletic Performance
Through the Inhalation of Peppermint Odor
"Overall Athletic Performance
Enhancement"
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Decrease in Fatigue |
25% |
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Decrease in Perceived Temporal
Workload |
22% |
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Increase in Vigor |
13% |
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Decrease in Perceived Frustration |
13% |
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Decrease in Perceived Effort
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12% |
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Increase in Perceived Performance |
09% |
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Decrease in Perceived Physical
Workload |
08% |
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Increase in Strength |
06% |
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Increase in Number of Push-Ups |
06% |
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Increase in Speed (400 Meter
Run 1.5 Seconds Faster) |
*Participants were 40 young adult volunteers, 20 women and
20 men, with a mean age of 20 years. They were selected from
a variety of intercollegiate sports teams whose training regiment
required extensive running (e.g., track, soccer, basketball).
Ref: JOURNAL OF SPORT & EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY, 2001,
23,156-160 Dr. Bryan Raudenbush, Wheeling Jesuit University,
Wheeling, VA.
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