Promoting Motor Cortical Plasticity with Acute Aerobic Exercise: A Role for Cerebellar Circuits

Table 1

Participant characteristics.

	Experimental group
	CBI	PAS25	PAS21
	10	16	16
Age	24.5 ± 3.3	23.9 ± 3.7	25.7 ± 4.6
Sex	7 F	8 F	10 F
Exercise test, final stage
	45.3 ± 11.4	45.3 ± 9.5	43.3 ± 8.4
PO	227 ± 62.9	221 ± 66.1	220 ± 61.7
HR	181 ± 10.4	185 ± 6.4	181 ± 10.6
RER	1.20 ± 0.16	1.19 ± 0.08	1.17 ± 0.06
BLa	11.6 ± 2.0	12.4 ± 2.1	12.8 ± 2.2
RPE	18.4 ± 1.5	18.3 ± 1.6	18.2 ± 1.3
Exercise bout
PO	205 ± 61.4	197 ± 61.8	195 ± 58.9
HR	170 ± 7.9	178 ± 11.7	170 ± 10.7
BLa	11.9 ± 4.1	11.9 ± 3.2	13.6 ± 3.8
RPE	15.3 ± 2.2	15.2 ± 1.6	15.1 ± 1.7

: peak oxygen consumption (mL/kg/min); PO: power output (W); HR: heart rate (beats/min); RER: respiratory exchange ratio; BLa: blood lactate (Mmol/L); RPE: Borg’s rating of perceived exertion (6–20-point scale). PO in the “exercise bout” section was consistent across all three high-intensity intervals for each bout; the remaining values were collected at the end of the third (final) interval within an exercise bout.