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  • Behavioral Psychology

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  • Maintaining high-intensity training (HIT) is crucial for fitness but challenging during social isolation.
  • Simulated partners offer a potential solution for individuals exercising alone.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if a simulated superior partner enhances workout effort in middle-aged adults during long-term exercise.
  • To compare effort exertion with no partner, an always superior partner, and a not always superior partner.

Main Methods:

  • Forty-one middle-aged adults completed 24 weeks of cycle ergometer training (moderate-intensity continuous and HIT sessions).
  • Participants were assigned to control (no partner), always superior partner, or not always superior partner conditions.
  • Effort was measured by changes in cycle power output during moderate and high-intensity intervals.

Main Results:

  • An always superior partner showed a positive and significant effort trajectory in continuous and interval sessions, though not significantly different from control overall.
  • Participants with an always superior partner significantly increased effort in the fourth interval of HIT compared to the control group (p = 0.02).

Conclusions:

  • Exercising with an always superior simulated partner can increase work effort during the most demanding intervals of high-intensity training.
  • Simulated partners may be a viable strategy to enhance motivation and effort for individuals training in isolation.