Pierce, Victoria F.2014-03-142014-03-141987-06-05etd-11202012-040051http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45890The twofold purposes of this investigation were: to determine the reliability and validity of two noninvasive methods for determining anaerobic threshold (AT) and; to examine the effect of an aerobic training program on the AT. Twelve sedentary, overweight women participated in an 8 wk walk/jog program 3 dâ ¢wk⁻¹ at 70% VO<sub>2max</sub> with a concurrent hypocaloric diet. A computerized polynomial regression and four independent reviewers were used in an attempt to decrease the subjectivity of noninvasive AT estimation from data plots. Duplicate plots allowed determination of intra-reviewer variability for AT<sub>FEO2</sub> and AT<sub>VE/VO2</sub> estimation. All reviewers fell within the 2-10% variability range accepted for research and clinical purposes, respectively.ix, 268 leavesBTDapplication/pdfIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1987.P537Aerobic exercisesObesityPhysical education for womenReproducibility and validity of two anaerobic threshold methodologies with overweight womenThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11202012-040051/